For R
Feeling like a 24 hour diner at 3 am
Rent was due last year and I'm still crawling out from under your mattress
I watched an interesting Ted Talk the other day
Which is a funny statement in itself
Talking about creative genius
How ideas roll over us like alcohol withdrawals
Chills cause goosebumps
Rings cause green marks
I stumbled home kicking gravel
Laughing at my own fragility
Rambling about this idea of a creative genius
As if creative could be compartmentalized with the nauseating label of intelligence
Genius spelled backwards is restriction and restriction rhymes with institution and do these words mean anything without your college education and your pickled sense of allyship?
There's spilled wine on a white towel seeping in a black garbage bag as I unlock my front door
Your name seeps through the bag as I carry it to a small plastic trashcan sitting on the curb
We check emails and the time but never use a stethoscope on our own ribcage
