Love ain’t the realm of absolutes,it ain’t a “forever ‘n ever”,so much as it’s a “as long as we work at it”. The key ain’t wrapped up in your sex life,It ain’t in the letters you write,It ain’t under dinner plates,It ain’t hidin’ in missed dates, Your love ended because someone, somewhere, gave up on …
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To the 71 notes of “The Taste of Giving Up” (2013)
The Taste of – Fuck that, I’m not giving up. Now you can’t blame me for enjoying a little self wallow now and then,It helps to distill the blood,But now that I’m back to pumping hundred-proof–honest-to-god more flammable than a grain elevator on a dry summer day,you and I need to have a little talk …
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Talking about why love poems are boring, and why they don’t have to be. (2013)
Tumblr, you and I need to have a talk. But Stephen, what do we need to talk about? Also, we are Legion. I’m gonna sideline that last comment, but you might want that looked at. We need to talk about poetry, or to be more specific, we need to talk about love poems. I’ve been …
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Lessons in Love (2013)
It ain’t that “love” is a dirty word,Ain’t that it don’t mean nothin’,Ain’t that you should stop lookin’. I don’t regret none of what my love’s taught me. That first time,Des-per-ate, sloppy,She put up with my drool slidin’ down her lips.She was my first kiss,Passion sloshin’ over the edge,Never saw her naked,Knew I loved her …
Granite Altars to Imagined Gods (2013)
it’s you and me, and the woman we love,standing on granite altars,huddling in the cold around the fire,one more star without a constellation. bottle of cheap whiskey,back and forth,back and forth.you and her.it’s not much,but something in the back of you knows:this is as close to loving as you’ll come tonight. it’s easy to look …
A poem for the unexpected. (2013)
I love you,And I barely know you,That doesn’t bode well for me.All I know is that you’ve got aspects of you,That I wish I had. You’re a giant of a man,Even if you don’t see it.
