By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 10 September 1998
Too Bloody Much
love is just so much clean-up
so much scrubbing away
covering up
so much Lysol
Spray-n-Wash
so many trips to the
laundromat
love is just so much apology
so much angst multiplied
so much whatever
gratitude for the spankings
tears wasted
on things his daddy
did to him
when he was four
drama created
over things she did to
her first lover
when she was seventeen
all of this for absolution
an honest touch
love is just
too bloody much
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