Aftermath of Broken Promises

Why do we vow?
I feast on words like juicy veal prepared despite all sanction.
Satisfy this appetite for richly dressed emotion--
Cabernet Flattery, gentle praise, even cheap affection
Indulge my vanity with every phrase you cook,
I will fill your ear with sweet bonbon ingredients
Collected in suburban cafes, therapy on plush couches.
Intoxicating words I pray will illuminate our opaque fate.
Life will be like travel decor: serene posters, exotic.
I promise balmy breezes will caress our glassed enclosure!
Truth I want? or medicine? Do untrue words provoke tachycardia?
Perched from danger, lulled and safe, I vow, I vow, I vow.
Syncopate the chant of life! Respond, respond, respond.
Conjugal rites complete the beat, veins pump united;
Saturated crimson couple twine our dizzy drunken organs.
Consummate, our formless hearts launch a wordless promise
Into solid-looking shifting sands of still unheard intentions.
Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain, and New York City, New York
April-May, 2004