I  Would Die for You

My love for you is a little like
A red, red rose — and more
It’s a tornado in my brain
Everything whirling around
All Wizard of Oz, with a house
And a cow, and a tree, and a tractor,
And the Eiffel Tower, and a kitchen sink
And various and sundry other detritus
Smashing all my little gray cells to smithereens
Jackhammering every bit of my brain
Into a gooey gray stew
A perfect gelatinous mass
To jiggle into a good old Midwestern potluck mold
While my stroke struck lifeless body chills
On a refrigeration slab in the morgue
Longing for you still