Imagining Andrea at the mic reading this piece out loud at a live show makes it so much more impactful for me. This is another one that highlights their skill at subverting our expectations as readers. I, at least, was expecting a poem about falling out of the honeymoon phase with someone and learning how to get back into it. In a way, that's what it is, but Gibson doesn't make that point in the way many other writers would. I think it's brilliant and I love how their queerness is so deeply embedded into their poems in such a way: the structure itself is queer.

Discussion questions

1. What do you make of the fact that this poem was the opening of their live show, yet it is almost the last poem in this collection?
2. What are the different kinds of love Gibson has written about? How do they portray queer love?
3. Which stanza or play on words stood out to you? Do you have a personal connection with any?