A Lick of True Love

Why look to movies or to books

for models of true love?

Why think a wandering eye

will bring the joy that you require?

Don’t say yes to plat du jour

before dessert is over.

Real love requires focus

on the object of desire.

You must find what you love most,

then hunt it to the ground.

My sweet dog is a perfect case.

She turns into a demon lover

of her bowl of eggs

from the microwave.

published in Sonnets to Sing