If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever 

closed your legs to someone you loved opened 

them for someone you didn't moved against 

a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach 

seaweed clinging to your ankles paid 

good money for a bad haircut backed away 

from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled 

into the back seat for lack of a tampon 

if you swam across a river under rain sang 

using a dildo for a microphone stayed up 

to watch the moon eat the sun entire 

ripped out the stitches in your heart 

because why not if you think nothing & 

no one can / listen I love you joy is coming

-Kim Addonizio, ‘Now We’re Getting Somewhere’ 2021 W. W. Norton