Love In Eights [Draft]
To understand how I got to this point is
To ask a man to uproot weeds
clinging to the webs of his own feet
To see through the fog tints in a boy who
Saw original sin as a function of a father’s lies
A chemical reaction to the scents
from my first crush’s beautiful strands
A few blinks and a smile misinterpreted as a forever keepsake
A first kiss from a beautiful Dominican girl six years my senior
And coming back only two years later to
her first child from some other guy
Much more handsome and much less present
Sit-downs with an unromantic stepfather
discussing pregnancy to an adolescent
The way cops put handcuffs on
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