i'll carry around a
little yellow scribble pad
when i'm with you.
when you're not looking,
i'll make little notes about
things i ought to remember:
'bites nails when bored'
'hair curly when drunk'
'sings stupidly while driving'
i'll commit to memory
little details about you
that even you don't notice:
'eats left over cake crumbs with fork'
'holds down right corners of pages of books'
'thinks dinosaurs still exist'
but if i forget the bigger things:
like when your birthday is
or what you do for a living,
please know that i'll have
enough even without this
to blackmail you with.
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"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
- Robert Frost.
