poems by tom miller

my love for you

my love for you

is like the towering ocean

like the whispering trees

and the farting sheep

my love is crazy like

a sprayed roach

like the trapped rat

and a gorilla butt hole

 

my eternal and undying

love for you is like

committing suicide

with a tooth pick

like stepping on a puppy

like breaking into a

bank vault with

a paper clip

 

my love for you

is like a face full

of pizza oil

and crusted bits of

marinara stuck

in the corner

of your willing mouth

Like yak spit in

the mouth of your mother

at her first and last

visit to the zoo

 

without you

I would wrap my neck

with a garden hose

and turn on the faucet

 

I would bungi jump

ninety feet down

with an eighty foot cord

and on the way to my death

I would scream for your kiss

A dog would

pee on my corpse

and that pee

would be to me

the symbol of your love

for my corpse

 

alas, I am dead

and so is my undying love

well, maybe dying

well, maybe dead

 

my love for you is dead and further…

 

my love for you

is peed on and

my love for you

is evaporating in the sun

and rotting and smelly

and posthumous

my love for you is

beyond the grave

my love for you is a

yellow and red fourteen

year old girl marching in

the parade and repeatedly

dropping her baton

until she spontaneously

explodes in a burst of

flames causing a tabloid

to print the headline,

BAD BATON BEATS BITCH INTO BLOWN BITS

 

my love for you

is the one chewy

rectangular carmel candy

that your mother tells you

not to eat and you

eat it anyway

 

my love for you is a

radio active lake from

which emerges a giant

jelly fish/giraffe combination animal

with nine arms and

two heads spraying a

stream of black smelly

sputum which immobilizes you

until the jelly fish half can

poison you and the

giraffe head can

lick all over your ear

 

that is how

much I love you

and that is what

I intend to do

to your ear.