Lunch Date

Megan Cannella

Originally appeared in the now defunct Lucky Pierre

I dreamt I bled you out today,

casually, during lunch.

A nervous server offered me

a napkin, club soda, a tourniquet.

I gleefully crunched on croutons and hunted for olives in my salad.

The even more draining version of you saturated my booth at the Olive Garden.

They made me take my dessert to go.

Megan Cannella (she/they) is a Midwestern transplant currently living in Nevada. Her chapbooks, I Redact You, Too (Alien Buddha Press 2022) and Confrontational Crotch and Other Real Housewives Musings (Daily Drunk Press 2021), are out now and available at https://linktr.ee/mcannella. You can find Megan on Twitter at @megancannella.