My Girlfriend Exploded


She wants me
calls me - baby -
pulls me close. No, closer.

She grabs my hair, a fistful,
stares into my sneer. Such
wretched, weeping eyes.
She sighs

ineedyou
shegroans
INEEDYOUINEEDYOUINEEDYOU
inhales
I NEED YOU

LOOK, she sniffs,
my nose is running
my poor red nose
KISS LICKLE NOSE
she pants
she clings
and sticky strings of thin white spit
gather on her lips

I NEED MY INHALER


She starts to inflate.
First her cheeks
pumped and purple
then her neck
veins swell
visible pulse

Dickhead.
Now her chest, her breasts, wow -
two hot air balloons, two big
bouncy castles stretch and creak and
push apart the world between us.
Her bullish legs
turn elephant,
ten bloated toes, ten
fat little tragedies.

DON’T LEAVE ME
I NEED YOU
I’M. GOING. TO. DIE.

My girlfriend rises,
she floats
over the laundry, the litter, our ruin,
takes out the ceiling, the aerial,
the tiles and the chimney. Up she goes

way over the pylons
the fields, the mud, the scars,
her need so vast
it shrinks her
to a tiny
dot.