I Love You(I Know) (Apologies To Yellow) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

I LOVE YOU(I KNOW)

It was 12 o’c Monday morning
we were(for some
forgotten reason)

both
at home

making love
to Yello’s
I LOVE YOU

(the more energetic single
not the anaemic album track) .

“I’m gonna take you
to drive in my car! ”

“I know it’s dangerous
we’re going too far! ”

“I love you!
(I know) ! ”

“I love you!
(I know) ! ”

A jungle screams
and shrieks

we laugh
without breaking our stride.

Can’t stop now
...for nothing.

The record pushes us
along.

We make the needle
jump from groove to
groove but hey...who cares!

Who cares!

“You’re gonna give
me a heart attack! ”

I gasp!

You gasp back!

“Hold it...hold it...hold it
back! ”

“Aghhhh...aghhhh...aghhhh....aghhh! ”

“I love you(I know) ! ”

“I love you(I know) ! ”

“Aghhhh....aghhhh...etc! ”

The wax shimmers black
in the run out groves

& then
the needle

comes back...readies itself...steadies itself...

then

here we go again.

“Oh, darlin’ darlin’ darlin’”

*******

Other records with similar aphrodisiac effects?

Well, that’s up to the individuals involved.

DeVynils’s glorious...I TOUCH MYSELF!

EMF’s...YOU’RE UNBELIVEABLE!

And more slowly beautiful... Van Morrison’s

HIGHER THAN THE WORLD

or indeed the entire

INARTICULATE SPEECH OF THE HEART.