gargantuan love affair in the style of gaze aversion, to be your friend your woman means we don’t leave prince on this bus ride, german superlative schlechtester bullet eye, closed-up phone love oceanic dating support be like skimming off old cream old make-out, i’ll miss them on the plane back to my adventure, i change my preferences a ghost question in hindsight, read to play to learn thine own shit, where’s the passion huddling with gary old man and north carolina beneath the earth, running into gertrude incarnated as the serious actor, pandemic hits and surfer burritos and watching the water while the mirror is watching you, salt air love affair, run-ins by the canal, what necessitates motion is a life in stillness a life in limbo a life lived in grandiosity between brushstrokes of fabricated genius, and I wonder where the time went, how it passed by in glimmers of paint from a santa barbara rose garden, to you: this is your life, better pounce.

gaze aversion means we

it means we

it means we say very little

we keep our cards close to our chest

fear of fear of fear of

means when we do gaze

we do it right

for fear of fear of fear of

means we corroborate nothing

reveal nothing

invent everything

mamet-ish or

mimetic minds because

I don’t look when you look except when I do look when you look except when we both look, but gaze aversion means the gazes are anomalous, not impossible

deny everything

free admission

and we had no say

pouncing squared away for a later date

survey says,

fear of pounce is fear of life

the cheetos kid in the back of class laughs

I break his cheetos in half

I win that arm wrestle

little red and wolf in one

big bad riding out her time before the self climbs out.

This was written by our contributing writer, Azure Brandi.