The princess and the seven suitors
Everything with you is subtext.
Strictly a whiskey girl, you pour only that which is opaque. You drop seven ice cubes and I put my head in the freezer, but can’t manage to sever my neck and become the eighth.
If I had my way, I would give you seven mint leaves for juleps and a pestle so that you could grind them to release the oils and throw them out the window. They would sprinkle to the ground with the seeds and the beanstalks would grow up outside your dormitory where I would fight off these skeletons with a sword made from a severed unicorn’s horn, only to fall pierced by a glance from your inverse eyelid’s flutter. Then laugh.
If you had your way, perhaps, you would transmogrify me into a kitten so I could slip in and sleep in your mitten and you would stroke under my chin before you grabbed your keys at the door.
If you had your way, perhaps, you would pour us both a generous measure of whine and when it’s all done we’d wake up refreshed with the world embossed into starker relief.
If you had your way, perhaps, you would run through the forest and giggle out a stream like blodeuwedd and everywhere you stepped would grow dandelions ready for tea and we would chase after you like deer maybe only to be gored by one another’s antlers.
If you had your way, perhaps, you would correct my french grammar and kissing and roast of coffee and we would drink it down to say, “Prenez bien vos aises, vos peines sur mon coeur, et vos pieds sur une chaise…” A shadow of the street.
If you had your way, perhaps, you would build music with me, a mirror fugue of your perfect symmetrical figure, melodies of your curves, and you would disappear into thin air so only I could hear you in my infected, deafening ears.
If you had your way, perhaps, you would set fire to the ground so everything dead burns away and what remains is fresh, vital, and without cynicism. We don’t need pessimism, pessimism, pessimism.
If you had your way, perhaps, you would travel deep into the darkest north with us as your honor guard. There you would find the ambiguously moraled witch of the north. For five to seven years, you’ll study her magic, all the while my hair is growing. And what is that itching at my back? Are those feathers? What is that balance behind me? is that a tail? And with a flick of your nose, I fly far, far away to do your bidding, express my lust, forever.