i miss you with an urgency that demands attention during even the most mundane of daily activities.
you are among the leafy greens in the grocery store
and between the cracks in the pavement
you waft from my morning coffee and
carry the one in my checkbook
i miss you in a way that permits me to only express my guts in tired cliches and saccharine ballads from a decade before i was born.
you are in affected vocalists crooning
and far less temperate than a summer's day
sometimes i ponder embarrassingly earnestly
what you'd think about This Specific Cloud
i miss you so intensely that i seize each moment because i can't fathom more than one day between seeing you next.
i'm sorry you bleed through in latin
when i'm disgusted and pathetic
but maybe you are the imprint of where
another universe bumped against mine

i come to you shedding dignity and pretense to tell you i miss you ardently, vehemently, rabidly.

please keep me.