Love Poem Composed Under The Influence Of Kristen Stewart & Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper, by Tom Snarsky

I wanted to kiss the guy on the train
Without asking, but night hadn’t yet
Fallen & also that’s fucked up, not
Asking, so instead I set myself an
Ultimatum: I will kiss every death
On both eyelids before going shopping
For flowers I will strip away
These layers of artifice & try to con-
Vince you that I live in a cage
I will reconstruct our secret dialect
In Midwestern neon & love will reign
From here to the small space between
The sequins in your teeth
Tom Snarsky teaches mathematics at Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, USA.