we got lazy & slow
thinking this would go on
what we had
was good enough for today
tomorrow
more than the next few days
anyway
then
she batted me across the head
some honeys on the screen
siempre en domingo
doing the lambada
said she didn’t like
the look in my eye
& I didn’t like
or want the violence
this expectation
she made all the rules
the casualness of that
she called it jealousy
passed it off as a one off
but you know it from then
I had one eye on the horizon
& the other
watching those hands
neilbenbow 