the kiss was an accident, you would protest
in the sense that an accident is two cars driven
under the influence of drink into the best
of things - one leading to another, given
time, all accidents are a matter of time,
two speeding past the limit caught in impact,
conversation cuts to contact, arriving sim-
ultaneously together, friction to fact
to fracturing lips, loss of atmosphere,
gasping for air, choose fright or flight:
it was all a mistake, no statement, officer,
comets collide and all is heat and light.
- Joshua Ip, Making Love With Scrabble Tiles
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