By Misti
Date: 2005 May 19
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Big Love

you do not need a covenant marriage
or a big walkin' small stick carryin' snake of
a man who lets you bake his apple pie
with plenty of Bluebell on top
while he watches another John Wayne marathon
in a room with dead animals on the walls
you need a big love
a love you've seen on the silver screen
plenty of times and never thought could
be for you
you need some of "Gone With the Wind"
Rhett kissing Scarlett like he meant it
even though he knew her for what she was
shallow and selfish and in love with another man
you need some "Say Anything"
Lloyd Dobler outside your window blasting
"In Your Eyes" with a broken yet resolute
teenage heart
you need the original "An Affair to Remember"
with Kerr and Grant bantering on a boat
vowing to get their lives in order so that they
could be together in a year
and you definitely need "She's So Lovely"
messed up chick from Queens making good
with John Travolta and three pretty daughters
in the suburbs
giving it all up for Sean Penn the second he was
released from the psychiatric hospital
in short you need a love
big and bold and as beautiful as your
still intact dreamy five year old heart
a love as vast and impossible to comprehend
as the desert sky
exploding with stars you stopped wishing on
a long time ago.