/hōm/ (n.)
1. hot leather and gasoline fumes and
burnt flesh and old sweat on a motel mattress,
and off-brand shampoo in a brother’s hair,
and every ma and pop diner in the u.s. and
truck stop bathrooms and blood stained fingernails and
cheap beer in the summer2. strong coffee and gun powder and
rotting wood and dried come in shared boxers,
and sulfur and smoke and
whiskey in the morning and new asphalt,
and love, and love, and3. love.
— translation: i love you, lola s.