Memorized every phone number
you have had
since you were
seventeen
and at this point
There is no other girl
who can brag about how
tranquil you sleep
how you are a mountain
mistaken
for a fat baby full on warm milk
bottle fed
before bed
I have watched you
melt into stacked pillows
seen your bed
grow a queen size space
big enough for me
and my mid-night uproar
our bed is a sea-saw
never a merry go round
a park bench
never a lunch room table
we have walked half way around
cracked and bubbling cities
worked 12 hour shifts
and saved money
just to be able to meet each other there
every night
clearing off our bed
throwing all of the dirty pieces that
make us
break us
and puzzle us
from the fitted sheet
to the floor
always saying
fuck it,
we will clean it up
in the morning

-Jade-