Attraction doesn’t want to attract
At four thirty in the morning. In fact,
Attraction never wants to attract.
It just wants to be attractive.
You would like to choose, sure.
But the attractive can’t be attracted.
Beauty sometimes gets what it wishes for:
The partially indoor museum,
Leaves strewn over lawn and floor.
Staring. Quiet. Bored.
Better the face when it’s sleeping.
Sleeping, you can see
What that person’s beauty was meant to be.
I know. Don’t wake her. What can you do?
Look at me. I’m attractive.
And look. I got you.