emily, emily, emily
04/02/2007 04:27 a.m.
i think a man
can only say a woman's name
a certain amount of times
before he gets tired of it
and then addresses her with
babe or hun or
just a grunt

and he used to say my name
sincerely
letting it roll off his tongue
like a foreign language

but then
there was a night where we
made love
and he said it so many times
over and over
emily, emily, emily
until his heart stopped and now
he never speaks in that native tongue