warm rains

you brushed your hair back and i
proceeded to
try to give you evidence as to why
i was so super cool.

warm rains made for us a pool to play,
and we entered each other under the streetlights.
i remember i wanted to
extol your value and extinguish my virtue,

that night made me feel alright, (that's understating it)
and i remember the way your lower back bristled at my touch,
we were both mutants, beloved of Frankenstein,
cast outside our timeline.