she laughed it off,
convinced it wasn’t true
- just like the rest of those things
i used to say to get a reaction.

it’s like that with you.
if anyone were to hear the details
of how i swell inside
at the sight or your smile;
how i nearly burst
the first time we touch
after being apart
for just a few days;
they’d think it as likely
as a story
in the scandal rags;