Look up terms

Like counterparty risk

Before using them

In poems about love

Be responsible

With the language

To which

We share a

Vast unreciprocated duty

(Which itself is love)

But it is a thrill

In writing poems about love

To risk looking foolish and

Outmatched by words and

Attempt surgery

With no training and

Wrap ligaments of experience

Around bodiless

Contract law idioms and

Suggest the

Septic dread of all

That can go wrong in love the

Unpaperable terror and thrill

When always in love we

Risk looking foolish and

Outmatched by words and

Attempt surgery

With no training

May 2021

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