IN WHICH I LAY DOWN IN THE GRASS AND LOOK UP AT THE CLOUDS

When was the last time you laid down in the grass and looked up the clouds?

GOOD IN BED

My phone is really good in bed. The lights are off, but she’s all lit up. Oh god, I love her in bed. I really do. I want her. She’s there but never tugging at me too hard, just purring softly. When she’s in bed with me, I never get much sleep. You know what I mean.

KEEP CHECKING

I check my social media feed in the dentist office waiting room. A family on a ski trip, hatted and goggled, eyeless and faceless is stacked on top of a me too sexual harassment story which is atop a call for gun control, a plea from a friend to save cats in an animal shelter who are scheduled for slaughter, a photo of my niece at her school spring festival with a garland of yellow blooms round her crown. An ache begins to rise in my stomach. So that, when I am called in for my root canal, I am relieved.