would you love him
if he was a doctor

you two found each other
in a university
cutting cadavers and smoking formaldehyde
and you two learned about your own bodies
slicing off each other's love

it could end up
in a suburban hell
or a morgue

would you love him
if he was a lawyer

oh, he's so smart
he could argue with the teachers
and when you two argued
it was like cleopatra and mark something
kissing on the pyramids

it could end up
in divorce
after you two argue about the price of milk

would you love him
if he was a writer

he could sway you like yeats
and sleep you to bed like morrissey
talk to the neighbors like chomsky
out drink you like any drunken rambler

it could go well
or it could end up like neruda

i don't care
who you love

if you loved me
i could ruin it too

just know
we're all so very stupid
and oh so very human

even if we're so great