"read at your own risk"

the deposit is in
and the apartment has been 'christened'
by matthew and myself
sure, alright
maybe we're putting the cart before the horse
but we are a young couple
and both of us men
so we need every bit of karmic positivity working for us
that we can possibly get
before we're actually "approved"
and for today
the bathroom hallway worked just fine
some rumpled-up clothes
ten or fifteen minutes of deep eye stares
mixed with the hush of carnal grunting
look, i never said not to "read at your own risk"
and besides
twenty EIGHT apartments i've looked at now
so cut me some slack
at this point i'm just ready for all the madness to end
if for no other reason
than i'm ready to start writing about something
besides searching for somewhere to live
because honestly
it'd really be nice to start writing about
not looking for the apartment
but instead
looking for all the nice things to go inside it