By Button Poetry
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Transcript provided by YouTube:
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Love can only be described the way it is lived,
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in parts,
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hoping that the whole makes sense even though we know none of the pieces do.
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Love 1a: Love is a sandwich.
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Everything we do can be reduced to the layering on of parts,
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to hoping that we get the order right.
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Love is a sandwich, both are delicate tiny things
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that didn’t exist before we created them.
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We put both in our mouths.
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Love 1b:
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I fuck like a hurricane!
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Which is to say nothing of its sudden onset
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or its volume, only,
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only that it takes an entire team of scientists
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to predict when it will happen.
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I fuck like a tornado.
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Which is to say, in here, we will be safe, but around us,
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things will be destroyed by our excess.
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And I promise, baby, I promise that we will not end up
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in the same place that we started.
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Love 1c:
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If there is anything more like the way I fall in love
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than children’s cartoons,
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I haven’t found it yet.
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There are eight women who say that I am the ideal man,
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that anyone would be lucky to have me.
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I have asked three of them out.
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They all said no.
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We still hang out, but, boy, it gets awkward sometimes.
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If there is anything more like a tunnel, drawn onto a wall than this,
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I haven’t found it yet.
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Love 2:
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Love is the only thing that all of the songs are right about.
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Love is all that you need.
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Love is a cold and broken hallelujah.
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Love 3: The heart is a terrible metaphor for love.
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Please, stop using it.
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Love is not a muscle.
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It cannot atrophy from lack of use.
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Love is an organ.
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It can always sneak up on you.
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The lungs are a much better metaphor for love.
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Please always use them.
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The inhale is that moment of excitement we feel
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when we meet someone special,
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and the exhale is that moment of hate we all fear we will feel
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if this does not work.
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But that moment between breaths
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when you are all potential,
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that is love.
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Love is… (inhaling and exhaling deeply)
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(exhales)
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(cheers and applause)
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