i’d let you back into me

opening up to you

Photo Courtesy of Yours Truly. Saint Paul (25/01/2024)

if you can teach me how
to properly pack a bowl

light a joint so i don’t look too
much like an amateur

dance flawlessly on a beer-spotted
hardwood floor

make friends with the carefree
skaters on Como Avenue

if you hold my hand when we
leap off Split Rock into Lake Superior

scale the lighthouse with me, plant
superb pot in Two Harbors

tolerate my love for Tori and Liz,
careful not to choke on their DMs

if you trust me to be colorful, to
brew damn good cold press

if you eat my subpar aflutas and drink
my watery frozen margaritas

devise get-rich pyramid schemes to dupe
Janet and Earl from Duluth

let me play that annoying Smiths album
on repeat all night

survey a beautiful plot to bury us, fashion
custom-made poisoned daggers for the occasion