For All Those Who Have Been Waiting by Kelly Grace Thomas

Tomorrow is always so hungry.

For All Those Who Have Been Waiting

by Kelly Grace Thomas

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to open the champagne, dusty with
patience. To drink the desert.  Bite
the neck of  someone new.  To quit
the  job,  the man,  the lie you swig
from  every  winter.  The  standstill
traffic   of   excuse.   Tomorrow   is
always so hungry. Sometimes, even
your  own  life  forgets  to  call you
back.   The   sun   sets   somewhere
warmer and teal. Maybe the trick is
believing       enough      to      keep
opening—doors,  prayers, avocados,
arms,    and    elevators.      To keep
pushing  the  loud  button  of want,
until     the     future     becomes    a
dance floor beneath your feet.