Vomit Your Love Poem by RIC BASTASA

try learning to vomit
love
white foams coming out
from your mouth
some green
phlegm
excluded from your system

and then you will know
it is true love
when you decide
to eat them
all again

you swallow your pride
you take in
what you have taken out
perhaps
you were reckless
perhaps
your were imprudent
on some
indiscretions beyond your control

now you want
to take in
to be back
to where you think
you were once

happy and determined and settled
and stable like a post
a pillar

a tongue finally resting
within the walls of your teeth within the strong confines
of your mouth

in comfortable silence