Please Keep Breathing (Journal of Poetry)

body!

if you want lasting desire dont fall in love with the body
cuz the heart still beats while the skin wrinkles
if you want her to live for ever, fall in love with whats clever
and find a way to summon it at her grave
then your heart will love her when shes forty and in palliative care
cuz when the body is ridden with cancer, true love will despise it
But your heart will survive the pain of losing a body
if the love for it was nothing compared to the energy it carried