This Love is a Clown in a Blender

It begins
With the heart
Racing. Beating
Out of control,
Mohammad Ali on Sonny Liston.
Faster
than butterflies in the stomach
Stinging like bees.

You take my breath away
like Sarin gas.
Lungs collapse,
nerves melt. Muscles shake
Out of control,
Mohammad Ali greeting Michael J Fox.
Parkinson's over San Andreas

Lips meet
like hot lead to the chest.
Ripping through bone and membrane,
Smoking flesh, searing pain.
A chainsaw to a swan,
The Enola Gay over Hiroshima,
Out of control
and not a chance.

You are the goose in my jet engine
Plane and poultry exploding
Out of control.
Fuel and feathers
Ignite
Armageddon over the Hudson.

We're just a couple
of crash test dummies
In a Ford Pinto
with a full tank
Just waiting for that
One
Last
Bump
To blow us apart.

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