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Kiss Her Slowly // written by @offcenterwriting via tumblr


LUNA

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Don’t fall for your best friend,
even if
cocoa is a really good color on you
and her
shea butter curls feel like silk
in your hand.
Don’t sleep in her bed,
take her to breakfast,
and carry the
so what are?
question under your tongue
while you eat.  You know what you are:

I’m so glad we’re friends.
Don’t make her laugh, because her
silhouette will catch the moonlight
as you sit hip-to-hip
on the apartment roof—
I see constellations.
The Virgo
will give you vertigo,
will turn your vertical to horizontal
on a mattress too small for two people,
and the alcohol on her breath
will turn to guilt on your lips
will turn to choked morning laughter
in the choked morning after,
to choked mourning, after.

Don’t fall for your best friend,
because
I love you becomes I love you
becomes What are you saying?
When you don’t have an answer,
you’ll kiss goodbye on the cheek
when your eyes can’t meet—
you’ll bite your lower lip
and wish it were hers.
Don’t swallow your feelings with two Klonopin
and half an Asprin
as you sit in the parking lot, trying not
to run back upstairs
and ask,
What are we?

What do you mean?

What
are
we?

I’m so glad we’re friends.   

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