Saturday, April 17, 2010

Act XX(X): The Love Nest Monster

By Partners in Rhyme

I return,
harrowed and haunted
by my memories
which flash
before my eyes
like flashlights
flash
like lightning
flash
like a woman's bosoms on Mardi Gras
I wander.
Not all who wander are lost
but I am!
Lost
in our love, a haze
in our love, ablaze
in a maze of distant days
the bed where we made love!
the couch where we made love!
the sink where we made love!
We made love
like two doves in the night
flapping their wings like
their hearts depended on it
we made love like like like like
like a tornado!
like an earthquake!
like something equally disastrous
but still sexy
we made love like fire ants
our love was a conflagration
and you were the arsonist
we made love like this:

Here's the room
where i first said i love you
and here is the room
where you first said you love me
and there is the room
where you made love with him
and this, this is the house of lies.
Maria
you have made this casa
a casa de pena
and in it i am a ghost
with an invisible heart
wondering
how can you break something
that you can't even see?

End.

4 comments:

  1. This poem is so good!!! I bet it is even better performed live.

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  2. This is nuts. Someone is going to take you seriously. ~mlk

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  3. Scrolling down to the picture made me snarf my soda.

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  4. I don't know what to say, but then again the photo says it ALL. No soda involved but I snorted. ;)

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