INTRUSION

By Rabiya Ismail

my psychiatrist says I can only focus on one thing at a time spinach, check. bananas, check.

but the thought of you has never left my mind; so I haven’t done anything right since that night

i loiter in aisle 13 in hopes that you might m a t e r i a l i z e

my cart boils over while my friends question my immobility

your name threatens to leave my lips i resist

they can focus on two things, even four sometimes while my mind can only focus on your body on mine