What do you bring to a picnic besides panic? (I answer a poetry prompt as if it’s 2013 Tumblr)

ants attack the anxiety

you folded neatly into the basket,

between the potato salad

and my love for you.

they swarm,

as if your neuroticism

were made of sugar

instead of trauma.

the picnic is ruined and

the day is too.

i fucking hate ants.