Sunday, November 22, 2009

Tupperware Sonnet: What is Love?

Baby don't hurt me
don't hurt me no mo'

It can burn up a bathtub / perform expensive miracles

with or without leaving
a perfume or cologne pillow apology
after leaving for prison

It can walk backwards through a decade unsure
if it's doing its funny little dance in a cemetery or a casino
and won't even tell you

the shore was ever embarrassingly the universe, nothing,
this sonnet
between sentences, weirdly planetary now

It burps

You have to burp Love like Tupperware

It can be a motherfucker to get the seal shut

To preserve what you may or may not eat later

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