You Ask How Much I Love You

Like the whore in every Fellini film
When the man of her dreams
Is about to throw her off a jagged Italian cliff
And abscond with her entire life savings
She tells him
As I tell you
Take it –
All that I have is yours
And then she jumps
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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August 23, 2017 at 12:02 PM
Wonderful verses and metaphor. Recently, I saw a great old movie with Sofia Loren and Mastroiani. She helped a young student of theology to follow his vocation and choose the other love. Kierkegaard, also in a strange position, meditated a lot on two kind of love. Your verses, also echoed the movie Thorn bird.
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