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For Love // 2 of 2

brilliant totem pole
a head for you
in concrete
the east is worse
let’s move north
call each other new names
our different ailments
“diagnosis A”::“Con”

adopt a dog
picket different politicians
eat food off my chest
stand by the door
when you can’t sleep
watch the bugs eat the lights

“I’m just pink squares
a little buzz
a thorny plant
a sideways hallways
but you love me
just the same”

the chorus kicks in

(saw a smoker missing
two teeth
right in the front)

do you like the way I snore?
and clear my throat
when I push my glasses up
if the pollen is bad?

we can be angry
in snow
or hot on the beach
I’d love you a hundred
hundred different ways

I realize I’m
your cocaine lover
the farmer who drained
the rest of his land
for you to say
“I want to”

when you were moving
your bare mattress
on the floor
surrounded by bags
books
an odd lamp

what was more
what was more
what was more

where did the dead poetry go