love is
scented markers
scribbled on backs of hands
and you don't keep going back for
the scent.
This is from an exercise I did when I went to a free class at Gotham Writers' Workshop this evening:
Love goes to the bathroom
...and she's a squatter.
She grand-pliés over the seat
hoping she doesn't leave
it wet, like her counterpart
Heartbreak who also always leaves
the seat up.