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"LOVE?"

Oh Meadowide
Pardon as I your
Green carpet
Trangress
With my one
Love

I love her          like           Love: how to express it
And She, I                         Do not say need, cool, or
And the day was                    I like your legs (or thing)
The many before
Had been                           For
                                   That is no way to say it

But as we crested                  Indeed
A hill                             Say nothing
                                   If love is there
All flower-covered
 Andsaw a world so full of         Good people,
                                   Can soul-feeling be rediscovered
L ove

                                   Before to-lateness arrives

~ chloud crossed our               It speeds now yet slowed
  at and as                        By a tingle in my spine
                                   Command: tingle your spine
I turned to                        Love, good, beauty, happiness,

See my one 1                                                         truth

As she         ove                 Recei ve new categories this century

Had been                           Today we can find them listed

I saw but  bure  11      rose      Under "rn for relativity
And held           ow              Under "m" for mis_<;ellaneous considerations

A dead thorny     branch           Under "new words"
What is that                       Under "words with new meanings"

Word again                         Because:
Love                               The same material (babies)
                                   Is being born i.e. a constant
Was Sh e I.n love
Or I                               But this happens
                                   "As the world turns" ...
Was it love which                  Differently and more complexly

IMhade1 me biltter that            Per revolution i.e , a variable
    e d a thorn and                Simplicity was an accurate space shot
                                   The button was pushed long before
Not a rose peta 1
Or was it Pride                    The invention of engines and
                                   It is gone from this sphere
Was only my
Conceit                            Boosted clean away
                                   Before boosters entered the market
Damaged or my                      Coping is tOO much the way of life with
Heart                              Deception a dirt road joining the major

I will not k now                   Concource to destination city
Until                              Still more redefining needed?
                                   Here is one hot off the press ..
A next time.
                                        ovel,n 1: love empirically defined
        R. Gunderson               And then such a short hop to brothel
                                   Congradulations on your new insight
                                   It couldn't be closer to the the turth

                                   But rather
                                   My sympathies, fellow humans

                                                     Bruce A. Cohen

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