What to Say Upon Being Asked to Be Friends - Julian Talamantez Brolaski

What to Say Upon Being Asked to Be Friends - Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Why speak of hate, when I do bleed for love?
Not hate, my love, but Love doth bite my tongue
till I taste stuff that makes my rhyming rough
so flatter I my fever for the one
for whom I inly mourn, though seem to shun.
A rose is arrows is eros, so what
if I confuse the shade that I’ve become
with winedark substance in a lover’s cup?
But stop my tonguely wound, I’ve bled enough.
If I be fair, or false, or freaked with fear,
if I my tongue in lockèd box immure
blame not me, for I am sick with love.
Yet would I be your friend most willingly
since friendship would infect me killingly.


2012, Advice for Lovers: City Lights Spotlight #7

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