You said
I would miss this someday
and I said
Sure. Of course.
I will definitely miss you
tickling me
when I’m in the middle
of the best Tetris game of my life.
I will think back fondly
on the lack of control
when you held me down
keeping me from more important activities.
Clearly
these things that seem to annoy me so
like you making me near piss myself
are in fact activities that I will sorely remember
as things I lost
when you’re gone.

I’m not going anywhere
you said
then
and I’m not gonna miss any of this
I replied.

You always knew how to push my buttons.
You always knew how to get my goat.
You always knew
how to make my most serious thoughts silly
even years later
when I recall the silly things you said
and realized they were all right.