“I was so excited to talk to you I put on the wrong lips.” a poem by Gregory Sherl

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Curl Under My Hairy Toes

I know there is a heart inside me.
This is a love poem I sent to Hallmark. I said Fill me 
with your papered mush. I was so excited to talk
to you, I put on the wrong lips. I said My other lips 
mean business. I said Did you see the sky get angry
this morning? I was trying to impress you
with my ability to look up. I said Polka Dots, get off 
the floor when you sneeze. I never want you to catch 
a cold. There is a snow globe at the end
of this poem. Inside the snow globe: fake snow,
my skin I have rolled up for you, hello.

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Gregory Sherl’s new book Heavy Petting will be released September 15, 2011. Details Here.

This poem first appeared in Blue Stem Magazine

image by Chelsea Daniele / Flickr