Literature
cowboys in space.
nowhere to begin this poem because
it’s too big. i would collect
every fuckin’ four leaf clover for you,
braid them into a flower crown and
place this circlet of bastardized good luck
gingerly on the top of your head, like a halo.
it’s funny how pretty flowers grow in the gutter.
funny how my city, your small town
have always wanted to gut us,
wanted to devour us whole.
nowhere to put my love. not enough money
for the plane tickets. my darling angel, if i lived
in the same country as you did, we would conquer,
rent an apartment together. work as cashiers in the day
or something, i don’t know. we’d make an escap