Do I Check Your Boxes?

by Brea Kamm

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Do I check your boxes?

The ones that tell me how to be?

Your list of needs is quite obnoxious,

Yet the only way you’d love me.

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Am I too happy, too sad, too clingy, too distant?

Too tall, too short, too quiet, too loud?

You wonder why to this list I am resistant.

Is this the only way to keep you around?

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Is this what you did to all the others?

Belittle them at every chance?

Make them meet requirements to be your lovers?

I think it’s time we take a stance.

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Forget your stupid boxes and stupid lists.

Goodbye to you, you won’t be missed.