Around You

Underage on the pavement
Streetlight as spotlight
Silent block, sidewalk seat
Pulling, picking weeds
Tell me all of it
You downplay the weight
By talking quick
While I braid your hair with my hands
Everywhere I look
There is a river
Notebook float that I live on
We gawk & laugh
Our tricks are the same color
Through the blue glass
The light just wants to hang around you
Time capsules already sorted through
& in the girls room, hip to hip
A circle of «I admit I…»
I just want to hang around you
Do you?
Made a magazine
Left off our names
Hid one in the toilet stall
Sprinkled a few in the hall
Stole the book about
Your favorite band
By throwing it out of the
School library’s window
Said you got a ticket
From speeding to see me
That whole summer we wrote letters like
Anaïs & Henry
You left some things unsaid
And i liked you more for that
& in the girls room, hip to hip
A circle of «I admit I…»
I just want to hang around you
Do you?