Texts from Last Night

To Emily
From Philip
With Love
Like
To Esmé
In Love
And Squalor

Open
the Garage
Door

It's
Cold

Just
Do it
Already.

Fifteen

Fifteen is the year where you can begin
to hope to be sixteen. Where
you can begin to have a mid
life crisis. Where
you weigh
your life
in accomplishments
Maybe even buy
a new convertible.

Fifteen is when you turn thirty-
nine Sixteen is when
you turn forty except
without the driver
's license.

Here is my gift to you
When you become thirty-nine
May you turn fifteen again
Waiting for sixteen-

Dear Dad,
I told you I'd write.

Dead Dad,
It's late. Goodnight.

Juice

Two jobs.

Two plays.

What's all this for, anyway?