Let's see the country, spend our nights on the other side of New York,
never letting the hours tell us what to do.
Let's play two rounds of our favorite game
and put the album on shuffle
and repeat it thrice before going to bed.
We could go kiss under some structure that we've only seen pictures of,
make sense of a place that other people can't define
but we can
because it belongs to everybody
but mostly us.
Let's keep the windows open so the room stays cool
because my heart beats faster around you
and keeps my blood on like an oven;
it won't matter if you turn it off
because standing time will keep me cooking
and I'm destined to burn.
Let's buy pillows that only match because we compromised,
and take the bus together on our way inwards
and lose ourselves in that city
that we took the night train back and forth between
last spring.
last spring.
We can kiss in the car like teens,
which we'll never stop being.
I want you to make the Mountain Music playlist with me
across a tent we'll share and a blanket that gets lost between the two of us.
Let's go somewhere we've never been.
We can talk about the next adventure
and teach each other phrases in languages that don't matter
but mostly because our hands speak a language that makes more sense than Spanish
even though I love Spain.
Let's go to Spain.
The boarding passes are on the counter,
next to our passports
and our youth
and your eyes
and a map of nowhere and everything.
Let's get out of here.
We're talking about Paris today, so naturally I'll be reading this post about going to Spain in front of my classes today.
ReplyDeleteIt just feels right.
Thank you.
I'm so flattered I might just show up for it.
Deleteso, I listened to rope swing over rogue valley while I read this and I thought that was pretty appropriate.
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