TAPS

I love you means vinegar means

I miss you all the time means

I wrote a poem for you called

“Recruitment”, it goes:

How about the racist construction boy

who wants our orphan cast iron, who lets his snot

shoot out onto the side walk mid-conversation,

how about my debutante friend with the underwear trust fund,

or the mustachioed Iranian from the truck driver family,

or Bri from Vivian’s Lounge, or Sarah who works the nightshift

I love you means I’m getting familiar with

your dreams, your dreaming

and I’m just as screwed

as you