from I Hate the Men You Sleep With

Will Staple:

practical solution

it is easy to love perfection

but if you can find in your mate

her most graceless imperfection, her ugliness

and cherish that . . .

you have deluded yourself

but can endure

the most intolerable of situations.

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A "Life Saver"

"When a man must defend his honor

with the end of a gun

he has no honor left to defend."

Isn't much of a poem, my rival,

but it saved your fucking life!