you+me+everything.

by Andrew Daugherty

Baby, let’s be selfish because selfless is tiring.
We’d do well to ask for more than each other,
and all I want is you (and me and everything.)

I want a candy palace and to be the king.
I’ll buy you gumdrop lamps and Kit-Kat shutters.
Baby, let’s be selfish because selfless is tiring.

We’ll drive a car my dreams would bring.
The backseat of a Batmobile is perfect for lovers.
All I want is you (and me and everything.)

We’ll take a rocket ship to see Saturn’s rings,
And buy a lake house in Eden for the summer.
Baby, let’s be selfish because selfless is tiring.

I don’t want to choose between us and the finer things.
I want to make it big and not have to wonder
what I lost for you (and me and everything.)

Let’s you and me stop imagining.
Let’s do for ourselves and for each other.
Baby, let’s be selfish because selfless is tiring,
and all I want is you (and me and everything.)

Andrew Daugherty (he/him) is a poet & novelist from Baltimore. He's the author of several unpublished works, including the pro wrestling roller derby noir The Big Heel and the poetry chapbook Under the Weather Girls. Past & upcoming homes for his work include COLORS: The Magazine and Bullshit Lit.
twitter: @andrew__3000
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