city
why when I am with you are we always drinking
when I like you better when we are not drinking
is it you are you maybe always drinking
because when someone is drinking I want to be drinking too
yes why when I am with you do bars fold down around us
forcing bodies out to cement sidewalks littered in litter
and we never take the subway we’re always stupid
stupid enough to take a cab to never get where we’re going
without doing in the back of the cab what got you kicked out of a cab once
and I am an idiot and you are grinning and at least my shirt is still buttoned
Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and editor in chief of Gigantic Sequins and the author of chapbooks every song by Patsy Cline (dancing girl press, 2014) and efs & vees (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015). A poem of hers was recently a finalist for the 2016 Yemassee Poetry Prize. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where she loves being a PhD student in English/Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Visit kimberlyannsouthwick.com for more.