Why is there no Ex-Lax
for the constipated heart?
No syrup of ipecac
after love’s poison dart?
Sometimes, we've been told,
you need that pump to heave
you need that pump to heave
before the gunk of old
relationships will truly up-and-leave.
relationships will truly up-and-leave.
It’s either that, or drive up
at a fast clip and fling
the poor diseased thing
through the window of a flower shop—
or better still, make it scream
and march until it drops
from the ledge around the top
of the Hallmark Channel building.
