BY LAURA MARIE MARCIANO
A persistent dry spell
no wet
for two months mollycoddle
He was like a musician and all like had a music video
Orange leaves on window or asking
Will you meet me in the park
and wake with grass stains on lips
He texts and I texted
something about legs being fine as hell
The prophet suggested that bee saving was better than dick picks
sent me enough so many - enough to fill a whole room
traveling in my pocket for three weeks like a dead ass prayer
And this empty prescription bottle like a fish that saved me
in empty empty water
I met you in the park first fucked on knees from behind
told to be quieter when I screamed through green
and grey light
ambient city nature buzz and cool spit off small but plump mouth watched your pleasure twisted face below me
It was the best sex I had in three years Or some shit
but then you came
got up and asked me if I always kissed men that passionately when
I first met them when i first allowed them to stretch my adidas track pants off in the summer suss garden
shame or
near home
Said if you knew I had a car you would have made me drive you
I don't know what a prayer is but Mary I do know how to bend on my knees for 15 hot minutes and repent
I asked all my girlfriends to text bomb you when you ghosted
I asked Solange to stop letting you perform in her show
I asked the whatever to tell your girlfriend about your habits
I just wish for the culture
sunflower seed stuck in teeth pretending not to weep into brown
leather seats
I just wish
This could be different or
I asked for Ana that we all know she was an actual victim of hot dead boys
#alreadydead
What did I expect - perpetuating rape culture with my wet pussy in your fuckboi hands way after bedtime for
girls who don't kiss as passionately when they first meet anyway
ever
they never Quazz
your name? is that your name I swear those other girls
they never do that
Laura Marie Marciano is a poet, performer, educator and media artist. She is the founder of gemstone readings and the author of Mall Brat ( CCM 2016). She received her MFA from Brooklyn College and is a PhD candidate at URI. She works as the managing editor of Barrow Street Press. She lives on the Internet.