My skin has been breaking out lately.
I blame my bad skin on my diet
My diet on my stress and my stress
On you. YOU ARE HERE and you aren’t here.

You who brush your hair when it is still
Wet, it used to look better, healthier
Before you turned twenty-one. Getting warmer…
There you were, unbothered, stump jumper.

And you never drove me around
Because you said your car was messy—
Eight months and you never did clean it.
PUSH FOR HELP, button-mashed, bleeding finger.

I am uncertain about everything
I was certain about. YOU WERE HERE.
Electromagnetism…and I never
really knew what you mean, but I wanted to.