For Thy Meat (after Marlowe)

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Live, come on me, and as for love,
We’ve only clinic tests to prove
Our innocence. Then, young and free,
We’ll romp through concrete Arcady.
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What hearts have felt, and tongues have caught,
And vice-versa, imports not.
Past lusts burnt sweetly, will incense
Paved gardens of inconsequence.
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Come, cling with me, and roll, and spoon,
Through gentrifying ethnic ruin.
Whites pearlier than moon shall rise
To dazzle hateful foreign eyes.
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We’ll trouble places, in the dark
No ruraler than public park.
For pollened air, and well-scaped land
Are all the nature we can stand.
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Our nymphs,with wigs and busts ersatz,
Will susurrate their surly thoughts
That bearded shepherd swains, asleep,
Are amply wooly without sheep.
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Come build with me. We’ll nest together.
Gingham, plaid, tattoos, and leather
To outift us urbanely, and
Apparel us, American.
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Come, lay with me, and we shall prove,
That Whitman’s praised adhesive love
Is not so binding in its power
When one takes care to quickly shower.