I lick spit
and the fluorescent orange bean soup grease
from the joint of your disposable spoon.
Small white mouth parts,

I am like leaves floating in something because I have not properly been filtered.

Residual means you’re a little behind residue
sticky like an infant
I’ll ruin you like a pair of shoes I ruin
in the woods, weeping like a reed
because I didn’t want to be there in the first place.

Pining has its roots in torment,
dark boots, ginger ale, popcorn,
gasping at the movies.