We smirk at each other’s terrible jokes & ride along in your Jeep with the top off screaming in tune to the radio & on hotel rooftops we lie watching the stars making promises & we play poker in the Chicago sand watch rom coms & horror we stay up too late together & I’ll pick you up at noon for what & you don’t remember & then I say happy third anniversary you say sorry I was busy for the fourth time & I call you to see if you’re free & it’s five days you forget to call back & you say you’re sorry & I say that’s ok you do it again & why don’t you change this keeps happening & it’s always ok
but it’s not