This link with the guy in Tuesday. I lived with him at Uni – we were put together in a house of eleven in first year. I fell head over heels and we did have an off/on physical relationship.

Adder

A door opens, the slice of light falls through

For a second and I know that you are awake.

Last week seems like last year, the events

Seem to have escaped your memory like a snake

In my dreams, that never stays long enough

For me to remember how it was caught

The first, the second time round. Then it

Slides away into the undergrowth, never bought

By my cheap charm, constantly on sale. Only

You never notice, considerate, unassuming, non-

Bastard. Openly sliding around me, some bird of prey

Addicted to your venom, your poison, for which I long

To taste. Again and again. I would not spit you out,

I never spat you out. Cruelty is not my nature, just a front

My talons would never tear you apart, just hold you

But you sliver away and I let you, I cannot hunt,

I cannot join in the chase to face losing, so I’ll go

Hungry, I’ll starve and watch from afar as you are eaten

By something else, whose talons are tighter. And I am

too afraid to swoop down and be beaten

by your naivety, you are too unsure of me and my appetite

as I circle round, drop down and play,

teasing, then aloof. But I’ve no bigger games.

And if I went to your bed would you let me stay?