The End

When you reach back out
I’m gonna make it melty when
I say:

I know you heard me the last time
And what I said was true

Plans?
No, I don’t have plans to stop
Crushing on you
Because part of me thinks
Maybe I was made to

And none of it’s tying me down

Dreaming of the day
Us in the black Jeep
Exile in Guyville playing
When I said: “Blake, plz pull over, I need you
Now”

We do things because we can
And argue about what’s stupid

And if this is the end

I want a boyfriend.

Alan Semrow’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been featured in over 30 publications. Semrow’s debut short story collection, Briefs (Lethe Press), was published in 2016. His second book, an epistolary memoir called Ripe, was released in 2018. Previously, he was a monthly contributor at Chosen Magazine, the Fiction Editor for Black Heart Magazine, and a Guest Fiction Editor for the Summer Issue of Five Quarterly.