i’ll come back still young

but slow pedestrians f

a place like this.

i’ll see people of

maybe i’ll have you done.

i’ll get a massage into a mohawk,

you’d never do it.

i’ll listen to

“focusing or an ego boost”

on your spotify.

i’ll tell inaccurate jokes

about you

to strangers at a dance cafe.

i’ll graffiti your name

sideways on an ice cream stand.

i’ll open a line to sing

at the doctor’s or on the wrong bus.

i’ll disappear too late,

i’m not careful to rush just yet.

Zora Patrick is an actress, poet, and lover of rock climbing. After two years traveling, she’s back in Pōneke to complete a BA in Linguistics, which she intends to use to write more weird and silly poems. You can find more of her poems in ReDraft and The Spinoff.