Love Poem: Casino Vs Japan
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Written by: Erin Beckett

Casino Vs Japan

Casino versus Japan 
      playing      an American group

I trace fingertips 
      across my own neck
is it weird if I just wanna
      go alone to my office/guest room 

but at the same time and maybe 
even more 
      I want you 
to want me so badly you interrupt 
      what I’m doing 

funny enough     you do come in 

and with a kiss that drips 
      un-lusty devotion, I sense you 
haven’t come to make love      or so I gather
       when you say you’re sleepy 

(and that’s okay I haven’t been in the mood all week but tonight we just got engaged and ** sake I just wanna feel ravaged this very hour)

and I wonder 
      would we make less love if I didn’t pour
over you so heavy my fountain 
      until you’re drenched and you have to
be like water     like rain

in order to swim and don’t you love it 
      when you do    it’s magic   
      
but sometimes I’m left pouring just a little 

I look down at the ring like melted sunset and wonder:

how long it’ll take before I seep through 

if you’ll still want me in my perimenopause years

if soon I’ll wish you wanted me less because I’m tired and you magically do more than when I was younger or I don’t give a  anymore because marriage is more than sex or you’re sick or I’m dead
      your forever enchantress 

and here I am not knowing how to wrap it up
      because the love we share is the best 
I’ve known and I WILL thee wed

in Denmark, Ireland, Vegas or Japan 
      for more brawny than a Scottish gale 

is your devotion
      warm as the Texas sun 
I know so well 

please don’t wake me up