never call your love poem "love" call it the hunter and the chinese apple call it the painted giraffe of Indiana don't raise people's expectations people will expect to fall in love when they read it give them a red herring trick them into reading yet another love poem
call your love poem I'm running away to a cold continent because nothing true is easy to say call it grapes on a Tuesday call it bitter almond if it's going poorly for you
never say love in a love poem it's really not specific say green sneakers say your hands on the edge of the table always at dinner as if it were a cliff your small hands which betray you and reveal that secretly you are always free your hands which are warm on my waist say I try to picture your eyes and suddenly I am just hurtling through space blind drunk on the cognac of you
say lets move to the jungle and live on coconuts say I want to turn into a circus octopus for you say I am your eggshell I am your sashimi I am your contemptible beluga caviar served in an old empty paint can rimmed in fire and rust with a side of cartwheels
say have some tea on this ordinary day I picked and dried the leaves myself I kept bees for your honey I fed them on lavender the teapot I made myself by going to China to study teapot making for seven years because you once ordered tea at Pho' Pasteur
say I have been preparing for your arrival even though all the airlines had crashed into cities and the trains had crashed into cows and the wheel factories had all burned down and someone else had broken both our legs
never write a love poem because you make invisible things bright red because you are taller than the sun all of life is red and the sun is at our feet and this is not a love poem it is a leaf on a tree in the Black Forest it is a piece of slate in Snowdonia it is the painted dust of Kilimanjaro the stars of this feature are a hunter in green sneakers with a bottle of cognac an apple from China that claims to be an eggshell and a giraffe in a zoo in Indianapolis who hates almonds and is painted the exact colour of your shoulder
-Tay
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