[00:01.95]My Love Is Too Much -Vanessa Daou
[00:46.734]My love is too much
[00:53.52]It embarrasses you
[00:59.217]Blood poems babies
[01:05.03]Red needs that telephone
[01:08.370]From foreign countries
[01:11.122]Black needs that spatter
[01:13.952]The pages
[01:16.51]Of your white papery heart
[01:46.36]You would rather have a girl
[01:50.101]With simpler needs
[01:52.165]Lunch sex undemanding
[01:55.829]Loving
[01:58.198]Dinner wine bed
[02:03.349]The occasional blow job
[02:06.337]And needs that are never
[02:08.09]Red as gaping wounds
[02:12.757]But cool and blue
[02:14.936]As television screens
[02:16.460]In tract houses
[03:54.779]Oh my love
[03:57.618]Those simple girls
[04:00.67]With simple needs
[04:03.473]Read my books too
[04:07.223]They tell me they feel
[04:09.360]The same as I do
[04:12.832]They tell me I transcribe
[04:15.176]The language of their hearts
[04:18.728]They tell me I translate
[04:21.616]Their mute unspoken pain
[04:26.663]Into the white light
[04:29.841]Of language
[04:32.852]Oh love
[04:35.633]No love
[04:36.188]Is ever wholly undemanding
[04:42.176]It can pretend coolness
[04:45.112]Until the pain comes
[04:47.839]Until the first baby comes
[04:52.987]Howling her own infant need
[04:56.883]Into a universe
[05:00.411]That never summoned her
[05:08.674]The love you seek
[05:10.762]Cannot be found
[05:13.202]Except in the white pages
[05:17.404]Of recipe books
[05:25.84]It is cooking you seek
[05:28.132]Not love
[05:31.364]Cooking with sex coming after
[05:34.459]Cool sex
[05:36.861]That speaks to the penis alone
[05:40.843]Not the howling chaos
[05:43.801]Of the heart