her smile
like sour cream melting, dripping onto
the marble floor, a floppy mess.
I kneel and scrub until it shines again, see our reflections,
creatures, chaotic & restless, in your face
where happiness & pain alter, like Melpomene & Thalia a
dolphin dragging a corpse cutting through spinal waves gently
the blood seeps through our interlocked fingers
as fake as the rings you gave me & I never wore.
the words floated from your swollen lips so fast, so easily,
as if you played it in your mind a hundred thousand times before.
Everything I ever wanted, yet it is unbearable when the corpse
of our friendship ties around your favorite number like a wail
echoing through a tunnel, I watch as those who come,
go & those who go—go further. Everything flows
don’t you know? we are two rocks
trying each other blindly until one of us
catches fire,
until we explode like glass bull’s horn,
until we cannot find each other
in the flames.