Both / And (Bisexual Like Me)
Bi- / sexual like
an indoor / outdoor cat,
like soft serve made from / plant-based milk,
like empathizing with both Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo / and his Juliet
in deciding to end it all / for the other.
Bisexual as kissing your / bisexual co-worker on the mouth
(consensually), just to see / what happens next. You get your
bisexuality from your Midwestern / childhood,
riding your bike against / the growing darkness
and kissing your friend on / the neighbors’ trampoline (both girls
so you didn’t / count it, until you did),
just before / you felt your first
intimation / of intimacy
when the neighbor boy and you / would play football
and tackle one another / a little too hard. You’re still
searching for intimacy / on trampolines,
metaphorically speaking. You’re / still
both a cat / and a dog person
(You are / large,
you contain / multitudes);
still both a siren and / Odysseus,
tied to the / mast.
