anyone has ever said to me,"
she said
after I told her
she never has to apologize to me.
"he might not make you cry,
but does he make you laugh?"
I ask.
she's the queen
of rompers
and sadness,
and I am her for-the-time-being,
and she may be my forever
or never.
"depends on the moon,"
she says,
and then bites my neck.