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The Couple: a Love Poem
Not enough time
is spent marvelling
at The Couple
How two people
from different worlds
speaking in tongues
can pick up their separate lives
and smash them together
As if it were
the most natural thing in the world
I use the word
Smash
because it is violent work
Two individuals
now joined in a hybrid existence
brought to life with the electricity
of new love
A veritable Frankenstein
A new entity
now so intrinsically linked
that it cannot be uncoupled
without spilling blood