By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 27 January 1998

I Love Him Because...

You want to know why I love him
  someone you deem inferior
 You want the reasons?
    I hope you have some time to kill...
 I love him because when I told him I was
   dancing in a topless bar
  he told me I should be a ballerina
 I love him because he cracks me up with 
his impersonations of George Bush and Bill Clinton
 I love him because he told me that when we die
 he thinks we'll be worm food and nothing else,
but hopes that for my sake there is indeed a Heaven
  I love him because he tried to rescue me from a con artist who 
knocked me up and abandoned me for a rich brat
 I love him because he doesn't think I'm wrong for surviving my pregnancy
on food stamps and then giving my baby away 
 I love him because he takes away my need for fantasy and escape
He is as real as the air I breathe, the ground I walk on, and that
  is sufficient.