Poem-A-Day: Rafael Campo, Love Song for Love Songs

	August 31, 2012 Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Rafael Campo. Used with permission of the author. More from this author Other Campo Poems Health The Distant Moon Of Poetry and Medicine: Rafael Campo in Conversation You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org		Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo A golden age of love songs and we still can't get it right. Does your kiss really taste like butter cream? To me, the moon's bright face was neither like a pizza pie nor full; the Beguine began, but my eyelid twitched. "No more I love you's," someone else assured us, pouring out her heart, in love (of course)— what bothers me the most is that high-pitched, undone whine of "Why am I so alone?" Such rueful misery is closer to the truth, but once you turn the lamp down low, you must admit that he is still the one, and baby, baby he makes you so dumb you sing in the shower at the top of your lungs. Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend