Love Creeps
mapping slutty star-eyed promises
the city’s happy-
go-lucky satellites bleep and orbit
around each other with
giggles and laughter and moans
of delight that last for one night
then echo fade into memory
on a radar of sex and an
answerphone with space to let
no incoming encounters
alone
reading a thousand
dog-eared salt-glazed pages
of romantic friction
lost letters of condolences to her heart
their words smudge into one single ripple of
loneliness
in which she is not alone
out side stands another outsider
under her bedroom window
in the rain in eye-so-lation
she saw him
by a false amber moonlight
he was
soaked through to the skin
she knows she should have
sent out morse s-o-s
but heroines from mills and boon
never did
and she was dying to be loved
by a tall dark stranger
searching for her very own heathcliff
instead she welcomed her bearded sutcliffe
mapping slutty star-eyed promises
the city’s happy-
go-lucky satellites bleep and orbit
around each other with
giggles and laughter and moans
of delight that last for one night
then echo fade into memory
on a radar of sex and an
answerphone with space to let
no incoming encounters
alone
reading a thousand
dog-eared salt-glazed pages
of romantic friction
lost letters of condolences to her heart
their words smudge into one single ripple of
loneliness
in which she is not alone
out side stands another outsider
under her bedroom window
in the rain in eye-so-lation
she saw him
by a false amber moonlight
he was
soaked through to the skin
she knows she should have
sent out morse s-o-s
but heroines from mills and boon
never did
and she was dying to be loved
by a tall dark stranger
searching for her very own heathcliff
instead she welcomed her bearded sutcliffe
