until the room
is completely
dark?
Your grin
implies
agreement.
Love must be
ambitious.
Love must be
determined,
a machine gun
that can fire
1,000 bullets
per minute.
And so
screw it
should
a satellite,
or angels,
ever happen
to hover
over our bed.
[+]
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New
Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections
Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty
Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything
Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011).
