By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 4 June 1999

matchless

only you can light me up
   like a bonfire
  make me shiver
  make me ache
       that delicious ache
  you rake me over the coals
      give me a migraine
   a magenta stain 
     detergent could never
          destroy
     you toy with my libido
       throw away the excess
       stow away the potential
  you are my eternal
        eventual lay
   I think of you when suicide
        seems like a good idea
    you are the one
       I'd leave
      a note for
  you are the giant
     in my valley
  I throw rocks
    at your feet
 and you are so sweet
     to notice