Animal Priorities
Emilio, I remember the crack
of your ass in your shacked jeans.
You pleading to “swap gums”

whispering, You don’t know how bad
I want to — blank — you. What I thought
you meant was, I love you.

If I’d moved into your gingerbread eyes
dolled all up to ride your vesuvial sled,
O Broken Darling: broken luck.