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I WANT US<br />
BY TYLER KNOTT GREGSON<br />
I want this. I want that. I want photos of us. I want to<br />
be proud of us out loud. I want to kiss you. I want to<br />
smile and laugh. I want to make you giggle, and I want<br />
to make you sigh, and I want to take your breath away,<br />
and I want to dance with you at people’s weddings,<br />
and I want to pick you up and carry you when your<br />
feet are tired.<br />
I want to wait until you are almost asleep and then<br />
kiss your nose and make you laugh so hard with some<br />
secret joke that your belly hurts and you smack me for<br />
waking you all the way up so we have to get out of bed<br />
and sit and watch the city lights while eating a bowl<br />
of cereal at 1:38 am.<br />
I want us. I want the smell of pancakes when it’s me<br />
that cooks them and the sun hasn’t yet woken. I want<br />
ears that hear the words I spill instead of eyes that<br />
read them. I want notebooks black with ink from<br />
all the details I noticed from all the times I sat and<br />
marveled at the way you spin through an hour.