IN JUPITER IT RAINS

s e v e n

You

you're dangerous, i think,
i can't explain why but your eyes crinkle
into beige papier-mâché
and your chin juts out at this sharp
angle and your hairline is wavering slightly.
i like how you don't mind
i like how you smell of farm animals
and starbucks
musky and pebbled with coffee beans
i keep forgetting my intolerance for caffeine
and you are dangerous, i think
because you are new

you don't know how to find a way passed
the four walls i carry as my own force field
you've stopped trying
and your voice is irritating in its insistence
to be heard
your questions are flies that have grown immune to my pesticide
and your sun is washing away
at the fissures where sunblock won't
touch
and you need to stop
you are dangerous
and your mouth is becoming an obsession
i keep forcing away

you care too much
in a careless way that makes me grit my teeth to shattered bone
your smile runs away from you
it used to make my heart hurt from racing
now i wonder how many others you've given it to
you give smiles the way others hand out customary head nods
and it shouldn't anger me that you don't save those megawatts smiles for me
but when you're so close smelling of
peppermint mocha and gingerbread lattes
falling asleep to my voice
i can't help reaching down to kiss you
because you're dangerous
but i've decided i can try this caffeine addiction after all
i think

inclining for being lovely