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Love-violence

By Erik Kay


"When my girlfriend and I play,

I pretend to call our downstairs neighbor for help.

I yell, “Kippa! Kippppa! Kip-uhhhh!”

as Charlie Brown-town goes to town

pinching and poking, Roaring and laughing.

Soon enough, we’re rolling off the couch,

Her gladly giggling, me grandly yipping,

Threatening to call the police, fearing

For my bladder, getting madder

Than hell and commencing countdown--

Three down to one, slowly and firmly--

Before fulfilling a threat, finally,

To ‘beat her ass.’

Love-violence ensues with tickle-pokes

And teary-eyed bites and slap-hands

Until all ends poorly with an accidental

Head-smack too far.


Then it’s apologies from me to her,

Or apologies from her to me,

My fanciful, fake Charlie voice,

Her ridiculous Charlie growl, eeow wow.

And she’s threatening to

Tie me to a steel-restaurant table in the woods,

And I’m gone out the door. See ya later, Charlie. "

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