Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks June 2015 (Concrete Nature) | Page 18

I Think We’d Do Much Better to Have –
Eoin Ó Muirí
– sex
And wake up still together in my room
With the window half open

and a breeze from the street
and the cars like the ocean

as they always are

when I’m in bed.
And we could look out the window and see

the terrace with the bunting

and the brown, crispy christmas tree

that’s been there since christmas.
And you could help me with my poetry –
You could point out where a line

seems wrong, and scrutinize me

for my awkward punctuation.
And I could show you all my favourite songs,

and that might help you

with your lyrics.
And we could do all of this from the seat of my bed
because
we’d be after having sex –
And so the day would open

up to us – like

a pink lotus.

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