poetry: you like that

Me being no one
it’s everything to know you.

You’d like it if I said that.
You’d think it were so great.

Me being no one
I think you’re such a dream

saying I’ll take one of everything,
calling me in from my own name.

All my favorite pop stars are singing 
I want. Want you back 

want your feeling 
I want some more. I don’t want

to climb into my only pair of high heels
looking like I own the place

but it’s a start. 
Not only love makes me bark.

Rachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collection That Ex and the chapbooks Comeback, Feel Royal, and Personal & Generic. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Electric Literature, ITERANT, Literary Hub, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere. She is also the founding editor in chief of Peach Mag and an editorial advisor to Foundlings Press. She lives between Buffalo and Western Massachusetts, where she is an MFA candidate in poetry at UMass Amherst.