i have decided to stop swearing. instead, i will sweat off love forever
and wake up each day swimming in gentleness, kisses to the nape
of my neck, declaring i need you and i want this and lets stay here
louder and louder for the people in the back! until even the sun hears
me and winter starts coming to an end. i will go to therapy. this time
it will work. my favorite musical will come to nyc and i will meet god,
or your parents, either of whom will delight in me when i come to visit
the holy place where you grew up in come june. i will be on my hot-girl-
bull-shit and will still be gendered correctly, and i will be the moment
when you look at me, and i know the earth is still spinning, and i will say
i want to stay here, forever anyway.

AG McGee is from Grand Rivers, Kentucky, and is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at the University of Michigan. AG writes on grief, love, and queer joy. Their work can be found in Permafrost Magazine, Decomp Journal, The Nassau Literary Review, in wherever Princeton stores their creative writing theses, and in google docs shared with beloved friends. Say hi, sometime!