HOT MESS

It is noon in the sweat glands of the gorgeous

and the pheromones are doing their thing.


But we are hungover and have to work in an hour.

And you’re a tall drink of water because we’re so fucking thirsty,


as lonely and out of reach as a balloon beached on the ceiling.

Dear heart, tensored by spandex, uttering a saint’s lament,

shiny side of a dime in the corner of a pickpocket’s eye. Well then.


The boiler room has sprung a leak and it’s getting hot

in here. We could click the like button on you all day.