Name: affection infection LIVE at Slam Nuba!
Duration: P00H03M21S
Description: performed this poem at the Slam Nuba final stage, and recorded this with my phone! (you'll hear a part where my phone vibrates.)

affection infection LIVE at Slam Nuba!

from good morning, cruel world by Nico!

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performed this poem at the Slam Nuba final stage, and recorded this with my phone! (you'll hear a part where my phone vibrates.)

lyrics

this morning, you were in my bed.
wrapped up in your fluffy gray sweater
and little black shorts. the shorts
you wear when you’re on your period.

you’re on your period and i have
a yeast infection
and you came over last night knowing
full well that there was a negative percent
chance of any sex happening

but i guess
this isn’t just about sex
anymore

because last night
you watched as i stuck medicine
in my most intimate places
and i listend
as you sniffled in your sleep
because the second the weather
dips under 50 degrees
you turn into a perpetual snot factory

and when morning came
the first thing you told me was
that you had to pee
and empty your diva cup
and i was like, woah

baby

you are just as gross
and human as i am.

it didn’t stop you from pressing
your body to mine in the shower
blood running down our legs
and it sure it didn’t stop you
from smiling at me
in the way that makes me say
woah
baby
i think you like me
as much as a like you
which is cool
because i like you a lot
not like love, but i like you
enough that i’m worried the words
“i love you” will slip out any day now
like,

i’ll be tying my shoes and i’ll catch you
looking at me like i am a beam of light,
wonderful in my most mundane moments,
and it’ll just slip out
and i’ll be like “shit...i love you”
and i just want to make sure i say that
when it is 100% true.

but the second i do,
love you, that is
i won’t be afraid to say it

those words
will shoot out when the time
is right, kind of like
your menstrual blood
when you sneeze.
they will ooze forth
the second i feel them
burning inside of me
much like the yeast infection
burning inside of my vagina.
but hopefully,
my love for you will be
even hotter than that.

credits

from good morning, cruel world, released August 1, 2016
Poem -- Nico Wilkinson

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Nico! Colorado Springs, Colorado

i'm a genderqueer spoken word poet that lives in colorado springs. i write identity stuff, body stuff, brain stuff. i write about the things that make me get out of bed in the morning.