Love Poems

Here is a snippet of an anti-love poem entitled "Against Love Poems" by Pam Wagner. The whole poem is strangely moving. Click on the link to see the whole story.

Love is, if only, a word
twisted, double-tongued,
bladed to cut more than it cleaves,
an avowal of falsity and pomp,
of circumstance always changing,
like lies, rotting fruit,
an overblown cabbage rose.