Tyler friend

Tyler Friend is an apricot/human hybrid grown in Tennessee. They edit the online poetry magazine Francis House, and their poems have appeared in Tin House, Hunger Mountain, and the window of a bar called Charlie O’s World Famous. 

"On You" 
You’re like pancakes topped with real Vermont maple syrup
and an orgasm, an orgasm bestowed by a deity.

Like a goddess that is easily calmed
with tiramisu and tongue. Like sinning

just for the flagellation. Like dating a Catholic
is like dating an alcoholic cat. You’re like—dating you is like

dating a desert that’s secretly a domme--
a bite-mark bruise, an affectionate confection, the fat insides of grapes.

You’re like the burger and the grease fire. Like
Danny Zuko, only without the misogyny--

just a leather jacket and a beautiful voice. Like a Southern drag
queen, a blood orange Long Island. Dionysius

in the Caribbean, Sunny D spiked with tequila.
Like dating Miss Frizzle, only you secretly bought all those outfits

just to wear for me, but you can still write them off as an expense, and now
you’re fucking me as a spider, bat, butterfly, beehive,

blood cell, snowman, amethyst, mechanic, planet, shmanet--
Janet! Dating Miss Frizzle is like dating your childhood, which can get pretty

confusing. Which is like dating you. Dating you is like raspberry cheesecake,
whipped cream made out of cum, like dating a cock

​without the nuisance of it being attached to a man.