What They Gon Say When

I am not married and don’t want married and don’t

want nobody, no other body up in my space? They

                                        gon laugh. They gon laugh

and condescend like my ex did when he wanted to

get back together, said, “You think you got it all

figured out.” I hope they laugh, say, “Shoot, you got

the right idea! Child, you on the right track! Girl,

the grief you have missed!” I barely miss anything.

And I got elec-tronic pleasure buzzers do whatever I

want long as they charged. Lord, the times they

gone dead on me. Like I told Toi, and she laughed

and said, “I’m your mama!” But laughed when I

kept clowning, was the longest conversation she

ever had over text, she said, “We’re in this shit

together!”