Sweet Dreams

I love watching them try to pound you night after night

Their clumsy explosions
at three in the morning again at four

Those horn-dogs didn’t get the memo:
you’re taken

Half-showered hair dripping bathrobe clutched in one hand the other scrolling on your phone in the miklat you couldn’t care less

Come back to bed with me,
My Tel Aviv I know you best of all know how to please you hold you make you mine

In the soft parts of the city in your coffee shops,
your dog parks

in an old friend’s smile
jogging to the public shelter in a kindly Am Yisrael Chai from a stranger
in the stairwell, waiting for the boom

In the flash of your eyes from a bunker under a hotel

Leave the unwanted attention outside groaning at your door let them burn themselves out

Lay down beside me on this unmade bed in the smell of smoke cold tea and yellow winter dust

Text your mother, you’re safe with me curl up, little spoon be my Tel Aviv
forever


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