cute BY jessica lovett

you’re sitting with the boy you love
and he calls you cute

and you’re looking up at the stars
to try to find the one that got you here
to try to find the one
that brought your mom
and all her moms
and all their moans
and you see the death of a star,
right there,
neck craned up,
you watch a star die
and it means all of the meanings you
could never find
it means astrophysicists could never
decide,
which whole women did they want to cut
inside,
harbingers of auto-pocalypse,
sipping wine, killing Time because she did
a thinking, murder Plenty and all her
many
seasons, her decanter
pooled all over the sky above you

all for you

absolutely all of it for you