Crossed arms
And shaking knees
Mark my mind this Valentine's day.
Throw me down,
Pushed back,
Hair mixes with salt--
Tears and ***** are flowing from my face.

I have two left feet--
I can't dance.
Someday they'll know
Everything about me, every detail.
They'll know how I'm
Smelly and old,
Fragile and useless,
How I've never been able to dance
As good as them.

Someday they'll get bored of me,
Someday they'll forget me
And I do get confused sometimes.
Yellowed up like pearly decay,
I'll be forgotten along the way
From love
To absolution--
Manumission from my blushing love.

Some people keep their love in their pockets,
Away from their mind--
Close to the groin.
Me, I keep my love somewhere safe--
Under my shirt and
Over my ribs,
Love stays warm in the place
That once housed my heart.

It pours out of me
Saline truth flushed red,
Even knowing it's not
As shiny as they would like--
Never me, never me, never me,
I'm too smelly,
Too salty,
Too useless;
I'd need a heart
To replace the hole of my love,
My blushing, rushing love.