For Love

Love flickers on the bug zapper

And dies in sparks

Love flits around and bats its wings

You say love, get away from my ear

You say

Love,

Get away from my ear

Or I will sway you.

And

Love flickers on the bug zapper

And dies in sparks.

Love persists and comes to your house

And teaches you to like Scrabble

Even through you hate Scrabble

And love makes you want to fuck love

And then you fuck love

And love resents you, love doesn’t call

Love flickers on the bug zapper

And dies in sparks

The sun comes up and you lament

You turn on wistful music

You swat at your ear in between

Hard bouts of soft crying

And the phone rings

But it’s just the repairman

And you eat food

Even though you know love won’t like you if you’re lookin’ fatter.

Hard bass guitars guilt you to phone,

To write, to think of beloved love.

She answers, you say

Love, get away from my ear

Love says

I don’t know why you

Just can’t be what I want you to be

You say

Love, I think about the same thing about you

Bitch.

Love hangs up.

You pinwheel down the street and think for a walk

The dog laughs at you when it urinates on the floor

You have a few beers to spot the peculiarities

But all it does is dull the pain

The phone rings six months later

And you respond, love hurt me.

Love says

Baby, I don’t care.

I’m ambivalent

I just called to get my

Weezer album back.

Then love comes over and ten minutes later

You fuck

And then love decides to move to

Japan

And join the air force

Or that you’re a misogynist.

Shit, you think to yourself.

Love flickers on the bug zapper

And dies in sparks.