Interviewer: “The other thing I read about you is that you don’t love the hunk status that has been bestowed upon you. Why?”
Kit Harington: “It’s not that I don’t love it. I just don’t like being asked about it.”

-       Matt Lauer, Today Show, June 1, 2015

Kit Harington will not lean
against his car in the darkness
outside the ice cream shop
and say, “This doesn’t have to
make things weird between us.”

Kit Harington will not love
my posts on Facebook. The scent
of Kit Harington’s curls
will not leave me lightheaded.

Kit Harington will not tell me
ambiguity is hot. Kit Harington
will not press his thigh
against mine on the wide
dizzy dance floor.

Kit Harington won’t text me,
“I’m busy all weekend (sad emoji)”.
When I tag Kit Harington
in a poem about him, he won’t comment
underneath my post: “I know.”

Meg Yardley lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Rogue Agent, SWWIM, Bodega Magazine, Literary Mama, and District Lit.