{"id":7712,"date":"2023-04-17T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=article&amp;p=7712"},"modified":"2023-04-17T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T07:00:51","slug":"two-poems-13","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/two-poems-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Halloween: Ends<\/h3>\n<p>Michael Myers at the 711 filling up his SUV.<br \/>\nMichael Myers at Home Depot buying fancy drill bits he doesn\u2019t really need.<br \/>\nMichael Myers sitting in the back of the room at the PTA meeting, scrolling through Tinder.<br \/>\nMichael Myers doing taxes.<br \/>\nMichael Myers scrolling through Facebook in the movie theater.<br \/>\nMichael Myers at couple\u2019s counseling.<br \/>\nMichael Myers letting the dog out one night and telling the kids it ran away.<br \/>\nMichael Myers killing all the sex workers in Grand Theft Auto.<br \/>\nMichael Myers sitting in the back pew at church, scrolling through Tinder.<br \/>\nMichael Myers mowing the lawn on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.<br \/>\nMichael Myers wearing an apron that says I Rub My Own Meat.<br \/>\nMichael Myers getting drunk at his Superbowl party.<br \/>\nMichael Myers explaining the differences between a bratwurst and a sausage to a woman looking at her phone.<br \/>\nMichael Myers renting Saw IV again on Amazon Prime.<br \/>\nMichael Myers taking his mask off to have sex but leaving his socks on.<br \/>\nMichael Myers toweling off in the locker room.<br \/>\nMichael Myers rubbing against people on the train.<br \/>\nMichael Myers at the hotel bar explaining the difference between bourbon and whisky to a woman looking at her phone.<br \/>\nMichael Myers calling up toiletries and answering the door in his bathrobe each time.<br \/>\nMichael Myers ordering his burger well-done.<br \/>\nMichael Myers sending his food back twice.<br \/>\nMichael Myers not tipping.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Another autumn<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>after Mikey Swanberg<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>walking the mile<br \/>\nto work,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>freezing in the morning,<br \/>\nsweating on the way back,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>each step a stitch<br \/>\nquilting the heavy blanket<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of our unhappiness.<br \/>\nNothing has happened,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and still\u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I imagined my lover<\/p>\n<p>might show up<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>in my office<br \/>\nbefore I left,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>shut the door<br \/>\nand we would fuck<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>quietly on the desk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to the rhythm<\/p>\n<p>of the copy machine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In another version,<br \/>\nhe\u2019d walk out to me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>halfway along the mile,<\/p>\n<p>stitching his own path,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and say something<br \/>\nhe was never going to say,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that he had changed, and I<br \/>\nhad changed, but<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>all for the better,<br \/>\nand we were stronger for it,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>as though love<br \/>\nwere a sourdough,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>dying then restarting,<br \/>\ngrown through being given away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How long did I believe that time<br \/>\nwas the most costly thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What a hard bargain<br \/>\nto find it is the only thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Myers at the 711 filling up his SUV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7721,"template":"","categories":[9,49,119],"tags":[1912,889,6,1913,201,1914,8],"class_list":["post-7712","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquifer","category-literary-features","category-poetry","tag-another-autumn","tag-aquifer","tag-aquifer-the-florida-review-online","tag-halloween-ends","tag-poetry","tag-robin-rahija","tag-the-florida-review"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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