#PoetrySlut

we connected on Instagram.
met up by the river.
she said she liked my poems. 
we were fucking within the hour. 

she was beautiful and crazy.
I gave her one of my books.
told her she would be in the next. 
she went down on me in a stairwell. 

this isn't the first time.
nor will it be the last. 
of stairwells and sentiment.
in a sunny city.

we went to dinner.
pizza and an open mic.
she read a poem about feminism.
I read a poem about hammers.

we twirled down Michigan Avenue 
in Streeterville,
and made out at midnight,
wondering if we'll ever see each other again. 

I was heading back to NYC,
she was heading back to LA,
where she had a boyfriend,
but I told her I'd be there next summer.