'A Good Man', by Kimberly Wolf
I want to be a good man for you.
I want to wear a faux leather jacket convincingly.
I want to look good with the worst haircut you’ve ever seen.
I want to go ten minutes over my allotted reading time.
I want the poems I read to be not very good.
And I want you to clap anyway.
I want to be financially irresponsible and for that to make me sexy.
I want to spend my hard-earned cash on fancy cheese.
I want women to want to know what kind of cologne I’m wearing.
I want to kick a door open, just one time.
I want to barge in to your life.
I want you to wait by the phone for me.
I want to be saved in your phone as “faux leather jacket dude sunglasses emoji”.
I want to be able to make a big mistake.
I want to cry less, and when I do, it somehow makes me look even cooler.
I want your love to be the thing that fuels me.
When there’s seconds left on the clock.
When the cards are stacked against me.
I want you to love me like you’d love a good man.
Kimberly Wolf is a poet and parent living in Texas. Her chapbook, How the Frogs Get Married, is out now through Bullshit Lit. You can find more of her work at www.kimberlywolfpoet.com. You can follow her on Twitter @KimmieWolf.