By Misti
Date: 2002 Aug 28
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Nostalgia Makes Me Nauseous

while I was playing Juliet
to your Marlon Brando in "The Wild One"
all throughout my first twisted college
days as the faithful burning martyr
virgin with a plan
I could have been dating and possibly fucking
mediocre guys who didn't distract me
there could have been Depeche Mode concerts
and study dates by the river
burgers and fries and beer and banal
discussions of Plato and John the Baptist
and the Anasazi and metaphysics
and Paris versus Madrid
but no
instead there were six hour phone conversations
with you when Amy wasn't around
talking about what we would do to each other
if we were sharing the same bed
comparing our Indian heritage
your Comanche to my Cherokee
and possible names for possible future children
and at the end you telling me you
loved me or that you wanted to fuck me
whatever you were in the mood for
and if you called it love
I went out to the stoop to watch the sun
rise like an unpoppable bubble
smoking a pack of Marlboros
but not
inhaling