Love U.S.A.

love in the peaceful u.s.a.
draw the shades down
draw
our light limbs together

and let us love gently
as if
that's still possible

not heaving and struggling
like
in the movies

with bosomy gasps as
the man
takes her over

I'll talk you my
vixen as
he rips

off her clothes:
she sighs
aaaahhhh. Not

Like young re-
volutionaries
shouting and fucking

sweating out power
more
power in bed

fighting the
system by
freeing your body

till you are a
cipher in
some weird class struggle. No love

me lie down and
close out the country
and close out

tradition
and turn off the
tv

and let the newspapers
pile up on
the doorstep

and kick in the
radio see how the
rhetoric dribbles away

and for once let's be
lyrical
like in the

poems
let's
pretend.

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