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Watch Out for the Love Words

love words
conspired on your tongue
ambushed me from behind
apostate's lips

and your breath didn't
smell like parma violets or
any of that
shit

because my sense of
smell had eloped with
my common
sense

they lived happily
ever after

we didn't

 

Alcuin of York - on Aug. 29 2007

Apostate is an unusual word, but doesn't mean 'liar' or 'hypocrite'. It just means 'abandoner of one's own religion'. It seems the other person was insincere, but not particularly a believer; that he had feigned feelings.

I also think "but" at the beginning of S3 would work better than "because"

I very much like the placement of "shit" at the end of S2. It quickly removes any of the romantic feel that a lot of 'love-betrayed' poems sometimes carry. It jars us back to reality, to un-romantic honesty.

Alcuin


Word junkie - on Aug. 29 2007
Apostate

adjective
1. not faithful to religion or party or cause

noun
1. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: deserter]

 

I'm using it paricularly with reference to friend from which I invoke lover.

 

Your comment was helpful...thanks! 


Colleen - on Aug. 30 2007

a very effective use of the word shit... just my opinion!!! 


Anstey - on Feb. 19 2008
I had missed this one. I really love it.
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