«I’d like him to wear boots»
I’d like him to wear boots
(sometimes), thinking they are sexy.
If only for a moment, I should receive happiness. People seem happy when they are in love and I just go about my business pretending not to notice.
Shake me Let’s go back to sleep in each other’s arms.
. Winter is long and too many cold night will keep happiness sounding like a foreign language, unless we never leave this place. Can you even hear me? Even this will one day feel like a distant memory. How lucky other people are, I think, watching your closed eyes dart back and forth. How lucky we are, I guess.
I want to feel taken (for granted).
Sexy, side sore, pierced with arrows;
nothing ever seems to heal,
least of all my
. heart.
If beauty is on the inside, then rip me open & make love to my carcass. Everything is so random, so predetermined. Discard me, disregard me, ignore me until you need me.
I have secrets to whisper in your ear.
Brian Fuchs, “I’d like him to wear boots” from The Theoretical Tiger Society (Scissortail Press, 2021)
Written 13 March 2008 in Anchorage, Alaska

