Love is Funny (for JT)

Love is funny
not precious on a doily
so I laugh at it
because a heart can get broken
pulverized shattered into fragments
I am protected from that risk
on my silver bike
all steel and plastic and skin
I buck up taxi fuck
me with your fender
I am all speed and light
and the cement truck
whizzing past my hip
can kiss my ass in Brooklyn
there are rules to break not bones.
Oh, stroller mom pausing in the road
I know what to do: zoom
right past you silently.
It is Thursday
which happens to be my Friday
and you can all just take a walk
I am spending the air in my lungs
on love so there isn't any left
when I go down for good
you should read a poem
and get it on and let me know
that you love me too
by lobbing it just so.