Monday, May 21, 2018

Flawed Valentine

With a cancerous mouth
He spoke the word love
Distinctly in his own language
 
Not with contempt or praise
But as if he was consoling it
The inconsolable one
 
Then he whispered the names
Of all the gods the memorable
And the unmemorable
 
And thanked them all
With many bows and curtsies
To a sonata of applause
 
All in his own mind
The beginning not the end
Of all his flaws

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