Hush

When I said
I am old fashioned.
I meant that I expected more
from your status change after we first met,
and wake at 5am the day after with beer on my lips.

When I said
I am old fashioned.
I meant that two days Iater
I power walk in the rain at lunchtime
like Elizabeth Bennett and refresh my inbox and press
my phone to answer and switch off my phone and see a pink sting
on your cheek from my slap and the reasons we can’t and no one will bless us and smoke and refresh and Bach’s Rescue Remedy in a Walthamstow toilet and ghazals.