just hold on / oh OK /
[five hours pass] / hey
sorry about that / no
worries, what’s up /
not much / i was
thinking we could
play drinking games /
let’s go / OK / [two
wine glasses later] /
motor away by guided
by voices / nice pick,
I like i am not a scientist /
OK / oh hold on / OK /
[six hours pass] / i have
to go soon / and i know what’s
right / but i’m losing sight of
the clues / oh OK / let me
kiss your neck before I go /
oh OK / kiss, kiss, bite /
don’t give me a hickey / OK /
OK fine you can give me
a hickey / OK / kiss, kiss, bite
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Danielle Chelosky is a New York-based writer who has words about music and culture in MTV News and The Fader, as well as words about sex and relationships in Hobart Pulp and Flypaper Lit. She currently studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
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