Recitation by L.C.

You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat
You’d have to be a man to know
How good that feels, how sweet

My mirror twin, my next of kin
I’d know you in
my sleep
And who but you would take me in
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see I’m just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet

Who loved you
with his frozen love
His secondhand physique
With all he is and all he
was
A thousand kisses deep

I know you had to lie to me
I know
you had to cheat
To pose all hot and high
Behind the veils of sheer
deceit

Our perfect porn aristocrat
So elegant and cheap
I’m old
but I’m still into that
A thousand kisses deep

I’m good at love, I’m
good at hate
It’s in between I freeze
Been working out but it’s too late

(It’s been too late for years)

But you look good, you really do
They love you on the street
If you were here I’d kneel for you
A
thousand kisses deep


The autumn moved across your skin
Got
something in my eye
A light that doesn’t need to live
And doesn’t need
to die

A riddle in the book of love
Obscure and obsolete
And
witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep

But I’m
still working with the wine
Still dancing cheek to cheek
The band is
playing Auld Lang Syne
But the heart will not retreat

I ran with
Diz, I sang with Ray
I never had their sweet
But once or twice they let
me play
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like
a lily to the heat
You see I’m just another snowman
Standing in the rain
and sleet

Who loved you with his frozen love
His secondhand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

But you
don’t need to hear me now
And every word I speak
It counts against me
anyhow
A thousand kisses deep