Defenses Down in The Grocery Store

We were shopping for noodles - I almost had a stroke

I watched as you tore apart the shelves                  looking for               Agar Agar

You wanted to make me something special - pretend for the night

                                                                                          - we were actually dating

Boxes upon boxes littered the floor like the shattered expectations of

             A clear cut green diamond

We rounded the corners as I took off your shirt in the middle of the baking aisle

Biting your lip you held on to whatever boxes

                                                                     lay strewn across our bodies

                                                                   as I consumed your breath

 

                6 months later we sat in our apartment watching X-Files

               Catching the backs of each other's hands with our lips

                And throwing away the serious nature of

                                                            moving in and moving on

 

Annie crawled between and past our legs and nuzzled my neck the way he does

       Pushing her aside and taking the moment to show her up

                                                                                    Anything you can do I can do better

 

He really had me out here, telling all our couple friends that we

                      had named our cat after our favorite Mac & Cheese