when i say i need you to come with me all i mean is walk next to me and tell me about something that happened to your friend once, please, while i look for butter in the store so i can go home and be alone and make cupcakes and when i say i need to be alone all i mean is it takes four hours or so in a dark quiet room before i am awake and can enjoy the life i’d been living before in all that time i wasn’t alone and delight in plans for future times when i am again not alone but please if it’s after nine and i call you it’s urgent that i not be alone right then but don’t worry because all i mean by that is just say some things to me while i dehydrate myself to sleep and all i mean by that is, look, i just cry a lot, it’s okay, i always will, probably, so just tell me about what you ate that day or who you saw or if you got anything interesting in the mail today and don’t worry too much because crying is what i do when, whenever, but please when i say i need you to sit with me please sit down next to me and be patient still like you have been on occasions before because that’s all i really am asking for when i say i need you to sit with me, again, in the same way, when i am in need.
...grew up in San Diego, California and attended the University of Arizona. She lives in Seattle, Washington, where she continues to explore poetry and creative writing with the hope of further developing her craft. Poetreatise is the virtual venue for her newest work.
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