first
cigarette phone call cigarette
cigarette beer cigarette
(keep touching me
i can keep driving)
home never seemed so far
and so close
the bar was of itself nothing
and you and i
and cigarettes
and tentative and given in
between good words and bad
there was touch
and the car then
and the parking lot
the kitchen
and the bed
you and i talking
closing in
naked from the waist up
(i was not prepared for the comfort, lack of shame
unafraid as i have never been
so soon
and so long)
i still feared the asking
for that which has not left me
one year down
so cigarette kiss cigarette
cigarette sex cigarette
bathroom music sleep
drive eat smoke
talk kiss goodbye
cigarette write
cigarette
don't leave
go
come back

olivia bitting 2001

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