Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Ideal Valentine

It’s not these sad bodies
perfect in themselves
in fact that are wrong
it’s that our souls are animals
who live always in sight
of their prey resting between
kills and couplings leonine
and vulturously clever
in fact a soul can be
any animal it wants
and the body can only obey
but the spirit has to be
imagined even the idea
of the spirit has to be
completely imagined
or the idea goes away.

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