Here’s the Thing
I love you most when youāre slipping soup
When the juice from the chicken soup
Leaks like a leak from the bottom of the spoon
When the spoon is filled to the rim
With chicken soap juice & you are sipping
Sipped chicken juice from the spooned chicken soup
& the noodles make a big splash in the pool bowl
In your pool bowl of soup, chicken soup
Chicken souped juices sipped from your chicken soup spoon
From your chicken soup pool bowl
That has a spoon like a pickle
You are the bestest
The most dreamiest
The most marvelousiest
When you eat pickle
There is nothing more superb
Than a pickle-eating man
Eating pickle-eating pickles
I am such the pickle for a pickle-eating marvelous man
For chicken soup sipping sipness
A pickle juice punk
That is what I am
A pickle juice punk for your fingers pickle juice-stained with pickle juice
Chicken juice soupiness
Chicken juice sipness sipping pickle juice pinkness
Canāt decide between you
Canāt decide between the two
Chicken soup juices or pickle juice juices
You sipping chicken soup soupiness soup
From pickle juice juiciness juices
I am as sharp as a noodle
My thoughts run down the pickle train train tracks of pickles
Join me
Join in
Join in me for chicken noodled noodles
For pickled pickles pickened
Happy Valentineās Day Chris
Happy Valentineās Day, Chris!
I hope you like my gift.
Took me forever
To find something I thought you
Might like. I went to several stores
But nothing perfect
For such an occasion until I saw the perfect
Red Sox cap. Itās black leather, Chris
With the word Sox embroidered around it. I got it from that store
You were telling me about. I told the sales guy it was a gift
For a friend, that I donāt wear caps. You
Told me about this cap once before. It took them forever
To find your size. I want to have Shane and Chris Forever
Sewn into it. That would be perfect,
But I donāt think you
Would care for that, Chris.
I went to Dillardās to see about getting it gift
Wrapped, but they only do it for merchandise bought out of their store.
I went to this one store
That sells nothing but urban fashion. It was G-Unit forever
In that place. Some of the clothes were pretty pricey. They do gift
Wrap. I saw a shirt that you would look perfect
In. I canāt wait to see the look on your face, Chris
When I give you this Red Sox cap. You
Are going to look so good in it. You
Know that I think you look good in everything. That store
G-Unit has a few outfits I think you might like, Chris.
If Ciara asks, tell her that you found the Red Sox hat. It took me forever
To get back across town from the mall. Is there a perfect
Time that we can get together so I can give you your gift? Ā
I saw you out with Ciara last night wearing the last gift
I bought. I have to say that you
Looked perfect.
They told me at the store
That they were expecting to get more baseballs caps in next week. Iām forever
Looking for something I think you might like, Chris.
Chris, I canāt help myself. You know that I like giving you gifts.
I buy the best from these stores cuz I want you to look perfect
When you go out.
Shane Allison was bit by the writing bug at the age of fourteen. He spent a majority of his high school life shying away in the library behind desk cubicles writing bad love poems about boys he had crushes on including one substitute teacher. He has since gone on to publish seven chapbook collections with titles like Ceiling of Mirrors, I Want to Fuck a Redneck, Cock and Balls, I Want to Eat Chinese Food Off Your Ass, Remembered Men and Black Fag. His two notable collections include I Remember (Future Tense Books,) and Slut Machine (Queer Mojo Press). Shaneās poems and short stories have graced the pages of online joints, and a plethora of anthologies. He has edited over a dozen erotic anthologies. His longer stories have been published by JMS Books and Resplendence. His first novel, Youāre The One I Want, is out from Strebor Books, as well as his sophomore novel, Harm Done. His new collection, Live Nude Guys, is out from Gimmick Press.
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