FINALLY

Hi.
I just wanted to –
Hi.
My name is Jon.
and this is the last day
of my temp assignment here
and
on Monday
someone else may be sitting
in the cubicle
across from you
but before I go
I
just wanted to say
how much
I’ve enjoyed your smell.

That did NOT come out right.
Let me rephrase.
…
No,
I guess that WAS
what I meant to say.
I’ve been trying to find some way
to meet you
these last three weeks
and, maybe when you introduced yourself on Day One
would have been better than this – you said your name is Kandi, right? Whatever.

I want you to know I would never do anything to hurt you
no matter what they’re saying on the bulletin boards
and I think your calls to your boyfriend
are uplifting – and that he should probably probably stop flirting with your sister.

You mean so much to me,
Kandi,
and I wish we had met under different circumstances
like at a strip club
or while hitchhiking.
It would mean so much to me
if we could exchange LinkedIn accounts.

Do you think
that could be possible?
Maybe someday,
we could again work together.