Lovers Audition - Anne Clark

They’ll kiss you quick

And squeeze you slowly

Fall asleep

Then get up and go

Thanx very much

I’ll see you sometime

Oh — you say

Ah — the pleasure’s all mine!

Fire, Earth, Air and Water

We all line up

Like cattle

To the slaughter

Give me love

Give me affection

Hetresexual, homosexual

An endless selection

Cats scream out

In the middle of the night

And you’ll scream out

As they scratch and they bite

The night converges

Into the day

You get up

And force the tears away

He was your reason for living

So you once said

Now your reason for living

Has left you feeling half dead

Some recall lovers

By visits to the clinic

Those without time

For deep thinkers or cynics

Others want their lovers

Locked in a jar

While some perform better

In the back of a car

Roll up!

Roll up!

Who will be

The next to promise

Love to me