trumped

Right to it. I tell her yes,
I do find her to be an attractive woman
easy on the eye, but that is not the glue
that holds together these stolen smiles
we keep selling to each other.

As certain as next follows now, I openly
applaud our ballet of patience, and say
without discrepancy that the moment now
cheers for us. Time to show our cards little
mama, fuck it if we haven't yet found deck.

She agrees with a raised ante, communicating
clear as math, that the first two minutes we
lock eyes will explain the last decade, the
following minute, and every pretty word that
I lay down as foam padding, will be cut down,
trumped hard by the honesty of exposed hearts.