Nerd Love

I want a nerd girl
I want glasses taped together at the middle love
I want superhero on your t-shirt love
I want messy, smelly, nervous, awkward flop sweat kind of love
I want a girl who can dirty talk in Elvish
I want a girl who when she angry screams Khaaaaan!
I want a girl who during an orgasm
sometimes screams Khaaaan!
I want 12-sided die used as anal beads kind of love
Okay... maybe that one’s a too much
But see I want a girl who understands
that comic reading time and watching BSG
Are things you do in silence
But watching Holy Grail or The Big Lebowski
are things you do screaming at the screen
The kind of girl who understands that role-playing
is something you do with cards and computer games
As well as in the bedroom
You think you know kinky
We will watch Anime then
Cosplay on some Blue Angel shit
I want a nerd girl
who talks about her action figure
and vintage Star Wars memorabilia
and then stays up late to watch Adult Swim
while we cuddle on the couch
A girl who measures the milestones in her life
with episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
But fuck Buffy I want a Willow
Seasons 1-3 Willow
If you actually get that reference
I will propose marriage to you right now
I want a girl who shouts the lines to my poems back to me
when I forget them on stage
see this is not just about being a nerd
this is about devotion
Wrap me in your geekiness
Show me the depth of your awkwardness
And insecurities
We’ll dive in
Wholeheartedly, together
And when we climb back out
We’ll make a stop at the backs of my retinas
So you can see how beautiful you look through my eyes
We will dance
Even when we know people are laughing at us
Fuck it, because we know people are laughing at us
Getting funky fresh with our spastic selves
This
Is nerd love
And when they see our unabashed joy
In who we are
And how strong we can be together
They will be dumbstruck with fear
When they realize how hollow their own love is
Compared to ours
Because only people like you and me
know how hard it was just to find each other
We will show them,
What real love
Looks like