Vitriol

I fully intend to forever neglect you

The bees in your sharp mouth have stung you
The swelling is getting to you
Maybe you are going to fall victim to Pegasus syndrome
and start imagining you have mythological body parts
Whatever

I have learned that I don’t wish you too much well
It’s rarely been worth interrupting my horizons for you

I feel sorry for the asphalt where you are kneeling
Maybe you’ll just pop like a puff ball fungus
and become a sad brown dust
for the rain to wash off the pavement
Maybe there will be a luck that poisons your spores
and nothing will come of them 
A guy can dream

I have learned how little well I wish you
It has not been worth skipping underwear for you

Gas and rent and a little sugar
I can’t imagine sugaring you ever again
Getting grains in my lip and my eye like the small rock of my bloody shoes
You are a boulder of consequences and regret 
Maybe I can Rolf you out of here or chiropractic my own bones
back into a shape I might be able to crawl with
Given enough time

I have learned the well I wish you is dry
It has not been worth draining
I salt it and cover it and put up signs
DO NOT DANGER DANGER RUN AWAY FLEE