the other day I remembered the phrase
if love be rough with you, be rough with love
I knew it was Shakespeare,
but I had to look up what play it was from
(I thought it might have been Much Ado About Nothing
but it was Romeo and Juliet)

(I'm still not sure
if that was a sign)

so grade 10 English is still dancing in my mind somewhere

(but all I remember thinking is
that there's a word
for what I want
to do to you)