DON’T BREAKUP IN A COFFEE SHOP ❋ a.m. kozak

katie brings a pot of tea & lingers for a moment b/t
serving (it’s the evening) & points out a couple at a
side table who argue inaudibly. we love when
convenient & package our partners as accessories in
otherwise independent lives, she pours a cup. hm. i
read an article (i say) about the divorce epidemic in
our 20s & how in increasingly complex interactions w
the same social pressures to stay together
unconditionally amidst power imbalances &
emotional manipulation no one can hear outside the
pair (everything is always inaudible) we lose
ourselves in the expectation for how to date decades
before our parents copulate. i just want
to be touched katie tells me, or so i hear, or what she really says is
she wants to know what they say & i’m curious too
but instead we argue about who’s the most hipster &
where we’ll hike in february & how many articles of
clothing we can roll into one backpack & the days
continue to blotch like a stain leaks over paper,
uncontained till the moisture dries.