9. What I'm Into

When someone tells me I want you
to fart in my mouth I nod politely and chart a course
to what's for dinner 

My kink is not talking
about other people's kink

I like mortality and baseball caps
            men who laugh at their own jokes because they're funny
            vaccines and cat memes

I like liking things I like and
            not explaining why I like them

I like seeing my friend in convex mirrors
                           forgetting what I've dreamed before I can write it down

           Holes in the leather jackets of people who smoke cigarettes
                         in private bars that exclude 

I like pretending to care about who wins sporting events
                                     until I fool myself into genuinely caring

When I see a man who knows what he wants
I get out of his way so he can get that thing
and leave me alone

I want to spend forty-five minutes reading
               every takeout menu in the state before we order
               the same thing we eat every Thursday

What if we became every fifteen year old
                                                        stand-up routine
pausing for laughter at familiar intervals?

If I can be original for a minute
then I can be original for an hour
I can stop asking myself where I've heard this idea before