Ojo Rojo

“A Few Of The Crimes You’ve Committed Against My Heart Arson. Most of all arson. Tongues of flame flare lick, lick and like So many others of us, I like fire and I like water & a good flaring. Larceny. A little bit of larceny. Treason. Exquisitely executed, the ultra high kind. Peppered With a few petty kickbacks. Like in a self-serve brain surgery In and Out Same Day Service Bargain Up Way. Buy One, Get One Free. You committed fog against me. You committed horses Against me. You attacked me with hummingbirds. You ambushed me with iridescence. You scalped me With seeds. You blindsided me with stars. You pushed me over The edge with bumblebees. You strangled me with my own heart. You broke into me with gills. Me with lungs under my wings. With books you electrocuted me. With words you tore me to pieces. With inferotemporal neurons you swindled me. You hung me with satellites. With time and distance you slay me. You pepper-sprayed me with music. You took out my eyes, so you Said, to polish them up a bit. You stole my petticoat, my pretty chemise.You over-salted me with blizzards. You deserted me at noon. You committed rain against me. You committed sharks against me. With rivers and meadows, you lied to me, with canyons and the tops of fog shrouded mountains. You put ravens in there to kidnap me. You burned me with songbirds & nightfall & morning. You scalded me with flocks, you stole my tongue with tides. With all of this you put me down.”

A 3.300 years old egiptyan love poem found in papyrus shreds: “I shall lie down at home and pretend to be dying. Then the neighbors will all come in to gape at me, and, perhaps, she will come with them. When she comes, I won't need a doctor, she knows why I am ill”.