You motion for another martini and down it quickly. What number is that? Three? Five? Why hasn’t He noticed you yet? You’re drunk but not yet sloppy. You’ll leave before that happens. Catch a cab, stumble up the stairs to your fourth-floor walk up. You pick up your cell and your fingers move slowly but you put a note in your phone with the name of the bar you’re at—sober you will appreciate the breadcrumbs.
Tag: breakups
Don’t
Don’t hold my face when you say it./
Don’t look at me as if you’ll crumble if I turn away.
The Forest of Us
reveling in the feel of standing at the beginning of something, before it swallows me whole