Be My Valentine (for nj)

By Morrisa Sherman

Mine mine valentine!
Roll you in brine
Limbs entwined
Wring my mind
For God's sake, be mine!

I lick you bonbon
Love you boy
Taste you sticky
Touch you toy

Spring
Crash
Howl
Bang

I want you deep as Pismo Bay
Tennessee to Mandalay
March Fong Eu to old Man Ray
Halloween to Groundhog Day

Got me Shaking paws
Aching jaws
Raking claws
And oh God, look at you

Your winsome thighs
Your musky sins
Your hooks and eyes
Your caudal fins

Your lobster cage
Your magnet beam
Your title page
Your midnight scream

Fold me small
Pound my black keys
Play me movies
Slam the wall

Daisies and plaster
Salt rum and kiss
Higher and faster
Rip tear and hiss

Now?
Now?
Now?
Please?

Want you there
Tongue you here
Take you down
Pull my hair
Drink my tear
Sing me sounds

Baby
Baby
Baby
Oo Baby
I'm gonna
Eat you up

Hi mad sinner so feral, smart!


Copyright © 1994, Morrisa Stanfield Sherman.
This work may not be reproduced in any form without the author's explicit permission


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