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Four words on a game show
BABY, _ NEED YO_
Clue: four word phrase that articulates desire
I spun the wheel
as hard as I could
hoping for a fate change
in the snick, snick, snick
of the spinner bars,
and felt a cold stab
of fear
and disappointment
when the wheel slowed
and the bankrupt wedge
inched closer
you stood in a display case
with a tag
filled with adjectives
that made me ache
I didn’t know
how much
I wanted
to win
until I realized
I probably wasn’t
going to
the entire fucking
multiverse must have inhaled
at the same time
because the
ticker stopped
in the jackpot slot
and gave
me a chance
to change fate
cold sweat cascaded
down my asscrack
as the audience watched
with held breath
at our long eye contact
I never win
these types of games
Never.
I didn’t even know
what the hell I’d do
with you.
I hadn’t really planned
to bring home
something of
this magnitude.
I was hoping
for a trip to Tahiti
and maybe
a new air fryer
We stared across the stage
eyes speaking scrolls for years
and baby,
I have all this recently
vacant space
in my heart
I’d toyed
with redecorating it
with some self help paintings
Or maybe a hot tub
Or a reading nook
I hadn’t planned
on adding you
in this atrophied
little room.
I licked my lips
and read your description
patient, sexy, brilliant, strong
as you leaned forward
your palms on the glass
nodding as I sought
reassurance that
you didn’t fit in the
absent corner of my heart
you didn’t fit in that small space
You fit the entire damn heart and
you marched the decor
so flawlessly
it looked like
you were
custom made
for me
I stood
a single
phrase away
from having you
turn poison to air
through every
pore of my being
I nodded back at you
and
made a choice
the letters turned on the board
I had to buy a vowel
to solve the puzzle
to win the game
to dance around the stage
screaming
whoooooooo
at top of my lungs
as I smashed open
your glass box
and jumped
into your arms
and
the only two
remaining vowels
were I
and U
BABY, _ NEED YO_
I didn’t need
either to solve it
because baby
we were already there.
and I’d already won
Clue: four word phrase that articulates desire
I spun the wheel
as hard as I could
hoping for a fate change
in the snick, snick, snick
of the spinner bars,
and felt a cold stab
of fear
and disappointment
when the wheel slowed
and the bankrupt wedge
inched closer
you stood in a display case
with a tag
filled with adjectives
that made me ache
I didn’t know
how much
I wanted
to win
until I realized
I probably wasn’t
going to
the entire fucking
multiverse must have inhaled
at the same time
because the
ticker stopped
in the jackpot slot
and gave
me a chance
to change fate
cold sweat cascaded
down my asscrack
as the audience watched
with held breath
at our long eye contact
I never win
these types of games
Never.
I didn’t even know
what the hell I’d do
with you.
I hadn’t really planned
to bring home
something of
this magnitude.
I was hoping
for a trip to Tahiti
and maybe
a new air fryer
We stared across the stage
eyes speaking scrolls for years
and baby,
I have all this recently
vacant space
in my heart
I’d toyed
with redecorating it
with some self help paintings
Or maybe a hot tub
Or a reading nook
I hadn’t planned
on adding you
in this atrophied
little room.
I licked my lips
and read your description
patient, sexy, brilliant, strong
as you leaned forward
your palms on the glass
nodding as I sought
reassurance that
you didn’t fit in the
absent corner of my heart
you didn’t fit in that small space
You fit the entire damn heart and
you marched the decor
so flawlessly
it looked like
you were
custom made
for me
I stood
a single
phrase away
from having you
turn poison to air
through every
pore of my being
I nodded back at you
and
made a choice
the letters turned on the board
I had to buy a vowel
to solve the puzzle
to win the game
to dance around the stage
screaming
whoooooooo
at top of my lungs
as I smashed open
your glass box
and jumped
into your arms
and
the only two
remaining vowels
were I
and U
BABY, _ NEED YO_
I didn’t need
either to solve it
because baby
we were already there.
and I’d already won
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