by | April 8, 2011 · 2:19 am
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TAINTED LOVE by Linda Simoni-Wastila

Tainted love is stained love, a dirty jeans love, mucky
under nails and knees from garden dirt and worms
slippery, slickery things compost-heaped, grubs chewing love.

Tainted love is tinted love, a greyer pink love, edges purple
from necrosis, halitosis, the lack of osmosis, a hypoxia
of the heart hardened boundaries kind of love.

Tainted love is skinny love, skinned and thinned weak
broth love, fight veneered, resentment adhered, salty-teared
nicotine-laden cloud love, breathed in and cancerous.

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8 responses to “TAINTED LOVE by Linda Simoni-Wastila”

  1. susan
    April 14, 2011 at 3:05 am

    Wildly creative use of theme, Linda. I love your conceptions of love thrown out here like petals.

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  2. len kuntz
    April 14, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    really liked the last paragraph, “broth love, fight veneered…”

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  3. ganymeder
    April 15, 2011 at 10:39 am

    I loved how you used so many two dollar words in this!

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  4. Deborah A. Upton
    April 15, 2011 at 4:15 pm

    You definitely described “tainted” love.

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  5. Alexandra Pereira
    April 16, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    Creative and original! Really enjoyed reading your definition! Well done! :-)

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  6. randalhoule
    April 17, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    love this, and there ain’t nothing tainted about that.

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  7. LindaSW
    April 18, 2011 at 4:14 am

    Thank you all for reading my poem — I had fun with the language in this one. The reason I love poetry, I guess — no holds barred on those $2 words ;^)

    Will get around to reading everyone’s stories soon — the internet back up after a couple of days out. I drove down to NC with my kids for spring break just and arrived minutes before the tornado hit. We’re safe, but things like power got mucked up. Peace…

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