PINEAPPLE PEPPERONI BANANA PEPPERS OLIVES EXTRA LARGE PIZZA
Olga Konova
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We order a pizza with pineapple pepperoni banana peppers and olives please
screw it, we’re too young to not eat on the bed, the pizza is
a monstrosity and tastes delicious.
She tells me I don’t know how to brush my teeth, or floss, or not kill plants.
I argue that I’m great at growing plants as per the mold in my coffee pot,
and I haven’t seen the dentist in three years but have yet to get a cavity.
I bite her flexed bicep with my white, gingivitis free teeth and she calls me sapphic.
Freud would say I have an oral hyper fixation. Both are correct.
She writes me poems over text and asks me to boil her slowly so
I write poems about how I never expected her lips to taste so good,
and save them for later.
The time I pass is dazed wake up next to her my hand stroking her cheek,
I tell her about the life I’ve had and the one I wish I did.
Open up the windows to let in the cold night air.
In the morning, we eat pizza for breakfast. It tastes like her.
Olga Konova is a fifth-year English student minoring in creative writing. They write poetry that explores queerness, interpersonal relationships, and our connection with the natural world.
