Michael Naghten Shanks
"Another Piece of Toast"
I wanted You for the first time
stood in the marshmallow rain
smiling for every Da Vinci
a week later You got drunk and we fucked
before You woke I memorized the patterns of blueberry skin beneath your
eyes
for breakfast You soothed your throat
with coconut water You found in my refrigerator
I would have cooked
if You stayed
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Michael Naghten Shanks will turn 25 in March. In 2010, he graduated with a BA in English Studies from Trinity College Dublin. His favourite writer is David Foster Wallace. David Lynch’s Good Day Today is currently his theme song. |