I loved you from our first date at the batting cages when I missed twenty-three balls in a row and you looked at me like I was a home run in the ninth inning of the world series. Now every time i hear the word "love" I think, "going, going...

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil,But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!

I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.

I met a woman and we were lying in her bed, about to kiss for the very first time. Just before our lips touched she jumped up and ran to her closet and grabbed a stethoscope. She came back to the bed, put the earpieces in my ears, slipped the disc down her shirt onto her heart, and whispered, 'I want you to listen to my heart speed up when you kiss me.' And I kissed her, and I listened to her heart beat faster and faster and faster.

And I say,I crash in to things in the darkEven when the lights are onAnd I am wrong more often than I am writingAnd even then, I am often wrongBut when my friends are in the bathroom at the barRolling dollar bills in to telescopes,Claiming they can see God,I will come to you

It is untruethat bravery can be measuredby a lack of fear.It takes guts to tremble.It takes tremble to love.

Political poems are love poems, and then love poems can be political in this society where people can be so separated from each other.