FOUR LETTERS

What?

What?

What're you doing

talking about that?

Why you gotta open that can?

Why you gotta talk about LOVE?

Don't call it that.

It's not funny

it's not appropriate

and it sounds strange on your tongue.

This is not love we're experiencing

not by a long shot.

It is fun

it is friendship

it is sexual and startling.

It is like and lust

but it sure ain't love.

That is a word we don't dare say

We cannot get away with.

It is a word we must avoid

a thought we need to banish

for now.

So wipe your mouth, my dear

and think cleaner thoughts

easier thoughts

frothier ones.

Eventually, we may return to this train

but for now,

let us just ride along.

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