We are having a very frank discussion
about whether one’s nipples
have to be a certain size
in order to be pierced.
Yours are the smallest I’ve seen
but I pinch one and tell you
I bet they could do it
We laugh during these last moments
where all senses are heightened
everything is brighter and louder
just before dawn
At the tattoo parlor I feel it going dark
as Matt the artist draws jasmine,
his vision on my back, with an ink pen
And I have to lay down
I’m not ready for all of this
When you said you were leaving
I told you everything would change
and yet, here we are
different and still the same
Tomorrow you will get on a plane
Head to California with a koi on your arm
show your girlfriend at sushi night
and she will applaud you
for swimming upstream.
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