Yellow teeth

Lipstick of cigarette smoke

isn’t so destructive

if she’s smiling

and if you mistake the yellow

in her teeth

for the sun.

*

Love is

yesterday’s

unwashed mouth

kept for today

and reserved for

the sloppy saliva

of tomorrow.

*

A relationship

depends on not

depending on a

relationship

but instead

on the ability to move

together and apart

until there is no difference

between the two,

nor the two of you.