reminds me of you and the hot days we spent in your basement tangled among the sheets; warm and rancid. you smelled sweet through your sweat that soaked the hair around your temples and made your skin slick beneath my fingers. flies clung to my hair fat with the weight of humidity; buzzing languidly in the heat of your cigarette breath. your hands stained black with oil you could never wash away left dark traces on my hips; trails of your sins upon my body. the air tasted like filth and **** upon my tongue that slid over my dry and cracking lips. our bodies were shimmering and rank in the midday heat as we lay together and wondered why we were wasting our time.