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Love Is Like Barbeque

from Kill Starlings by Christian Drake

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If you know why the pigs
on barbeque joint signs
are always smiling,
you know what it truly means to be in love.

Because love is like barbeque.
You get your hands in the sauce down to your elbows
and smeared all over your mouth
‘til you’re grinning like a carnivorous clown.
Love takes a lot of paper towels.
Love is best slow-roasted over low coals
with smoke in its eyes until a kiss
might shake the meat from its bones

And the Saint of Love, right there
above your own name spelled crooked on the menu marquis
is Bubba the Pig, wearing Chicago bluesman shades
and a chef’s toque, as if to say,

I am both the cook and the supper.
I have fattened myself to fatten your belly.
I have danced to the scrape of the knife on the strap
and I have entered the knife,
and prepared myself for you with black pepper
and a long, pleasant bath above the flames of hell.

Now complete me.
I exist to be delicious,
and it is a joy to be pulverized
between the teeth of something incomprehensible,
a piece of my heart bulging in your cheeks
as you lick you lips, you smile, you swallow,
you loosen your belt.

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from Kill Starlings, track released January 26, 2012

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Christian Drake Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Christian Drake is a six-time National Poetry Slam team member and has performed on three National Poetry Slam Finals stages. Originally from New England, he bas been a host of popular slams, poetry shows and burlesques in San Francisco, CA and Albuquerque, NM. He's best known for his often loud, erotic, and political nature poetry. He currently a science teacher in the New England wilderness. ... more

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