today — we joked a little more in class, when the professor sternly corrected a student’s misjudgment of a deadline you joked about how she wrecked them — in rehearsal, i fell happily into your mouth again and you into mine but i’m nearly positive it’s out of balance and i need your temporary gaze and the cursory sensation of my hands around your face more than you temporarily need mine — yet as you said, “outside of class” — and as i finished, gesturing to the parking lot, “is a whole world” , i know we will meet again and i’ll think that it’ll save me, the growing importance of our intersecting hormones and the fading interest but skyrocketing relevance of our script, of dear Henry&Meredith, we thank them with our closed&greedy eyes, for we wouldn’t be here feeling the carnalcharacter of ourselves today if it weren’t for them — you judged the behavior of my hands and the way i say the line “