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Psyche Kills Cupid

Cara Losier Chanoine

There are few things more tragic
than love
that has been broken.

It has no form, but I recognize it
in the choked-off sound of her voice
as she siphons her tears through the holes
in the telephone’s mouthpiece.

In the face of such devastation,
I am a fire extinguisher
matching wits with the Holocaust,
I am Ella Fitzgerald
performing at a school for the deaf.
I am the notice Romeo didn’t receive
in time.

Twisted limbs and tangled promises
screech against each other,
smashing into something
that looks like abstract art.
Like the twin towers did,
love falls in on itself first,
before scattering debris over
rubbernecking bystanders.
It is a wreck too brutal
to look away from,
but we all observe from a distance,
as though it’s a disease that we could catch.
Still, we are transfixed because
the demise of such a love,
even when reduced to scraps,
is a testament
to the fact that it existed in the first place.

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