i’ll take you up and along this this staircase if you’re willing to take the steps. we’ll call first and second as left and right foot, for either one of us. depending. on whether third and fourth have anything to say about our legs, calves, upward thighs, maybe one not quite as present as the other,  resting on one or the other’s shoulder, but we’ll leave that up to the fifth: someone’s hip to how this ass is going to bruise in the shape of lower lips come monday morning. so maybe the lower back gets saved between that and sixth, and the upper levels might use the leverage to arch, unless we’ve switched. so maybe seventh serves knees, pressed, and all four palms plant roots on eighth or ninth, a perfect tenth responding to a spiral, and who’s on their back now, renaming the ride, one of us leaning back, betting that gravity won’t bite quite like we do, this guardrail, less of a safety word than a wild card, and. i’ll take you up and along this staircase, until no top or bottom, and the nails that put this whole contraption together, from first to beyond, dig in, until beyond is the first, and the first sends this stairway into collapsible, i am absolutely willing to bet, if you’re willing to take the steps.

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