Perhaps they were right putting love into books.
Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
— William Faulkner*

Faulkner said that maybe love
cannot live outside of libraries

If his assessment is accurate
then I want to pen our passion
on every piece of paper I possess

I will produce poetry proclaiming
the severity of our seductions

And scribble you and I between
asterisks on the pages of periodicals
so we can be among the stars as well

Darling, I will turn all of our dates
into diary entries and change the
definitions for words like brilliance and
glorious into descriptions of us

When I’m through, we will
have the most eternal
love stories around