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                                          To Hell with Anything Less

                                          Composed collectively by XOXO audience | Edited by Elaina M. Ellis

                                           I want to be warmed
                                                      by you like
                                                      a big bowl
                                                      of pho.
                                          I want love eternally.
                                          Give me everything.
                                          *
                                           I want to be what you are to me.
                                                      To be complete at just the sound
                                                      of your breath and have forever
                                                      in your touch.
                                          Give me your heart without conditions.
                                          Give me everything.
                                           *
                                           I want to feel the sweet release of true love
                                                      true, unfettered, unimpeded
                                                      acceptance of self.
                                          I want warm, I want juicy & soft.
                                                      I want cool, spicy & hard.
                                          Give me everything.
                                           *
                                          Give me the space
                                                      to be a person
                                                      who wants to come back to you.
                                          Give me the brain space
                                                      to remember
                                                      to always come back to love.
                                          I want everything.
                                           *
                                          Give me space
                                                      and we can fill it
                                                      with whatever we want to create.
                                          Give me awkward hugs.
                                          Give me your inspirations.
                                          Give me the real you.
                                          I want everything.
                                          *
                                          To hell with doing anything less
                                                      than enjoying you
                                                      right this moment,
                                                      ‘cause I sure won’t get it back.
                                                      Mmm...You.  Gonna grab
                                                      just what I can.
                                          Give me everything.
                                           *
                                          I want cheesy Valentine’s Day presents
                                                      and good intentions.
                                          I want to find a blissful sappiness
                                                      in two hearts’ connection
                                                      that words could never
                                                      do justice.
                                          To hell with anything less than everything.
                                           *
                                          I want all of it!
                                                      The juicy parts
                                                      and the squishy parts.
                                          I want more!
                                                      Sexy, cool, love. To be seen.
                                          I want peace,
                                                      love, happiness, chocolate.
                                          Give me everything.
                                           *
                                          I want people to love themselves
                                                      just a little bit more.
                                          I want the joy, rebellion, and sweetness of queer love
                                                      (dear love) to be more fully understood
                                                      by straights like me!
                                          Give us everything.
                                           *
                                           To hell with mumbly jumbly feelings of want
                                                      and lust
                                                      and jealousy.
                                          Give me the confidence to trust myself
                                                      when questioned.
                                          To hell with giving my best self to closed hearts.
                                          I want everything.
                                           *
                                          Give me, yes
                                                      those eight years, too.
                                                      But biscuit baking cowboy fisherman,
                                                      don’t stop there.  Give me each sticky year
                                                      between this and both our bones into infinity.
                                                      Will you?
                                          I want everything.
                                           *
                                          Give me more time
                                                      with the girl I love.
                                           *
                                           Give me a love that I can’t see.
                                                      A love that has blinded me
                                                      and evaporated only into a gas
                                                      that I can inhale and giggle
                                                      as it dances its way down my throat
                                                      and dances sweet memories
                                                      on my racing heart.
                                          To hell with anything less than everything.
                                           *
                                           Give me that love which will shake
                                                      me open and hold me always.
                                          Give me your hesitations
                                                      and I will bury them with mine.
                                          Give me a piece of your
                                                      loving bossiness.
                                          We. Want. Everything.
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