Accident
When I kiss a girl next
It will be an accident.
Not in terms of potties, bruises,
or losing keys, but accidents
like post-it-notes or the polio vaccine,
or the adolescent accident
stumbling onto sex:
innocent (in the latin sense)
simple and innocuous.
Let’s not stop to question the role
of the unconscious– let’s just watch
as we play out the accidents
devised for us.
So don’t guard your lips.
I’m not a threat. If I have designs
I don’t know them yet;
but even if I did I wouldn’t
follow through on them.
And because there is no contrivance
so great or disingenuous
as denying us this romance
when we kiss
it will be an accident.