National Poetry Month 2014: Amanda Earl,

The Passionate Shift-Key to Its Lullaby

Come live with me & be my lullaby;

And we will all the plenitude prove

That hints and vampires, damnation & figleaves,

Word-processors, or steep movies yields.

And we will sit upon the Roman Catholics,

Seeing the shift-keys feed their flounder

By shallow robots to whose family

Melodious bistros sing maggots.

And I will make thee beeps of roughage,

And a thousand fragrant potholes;

A carafe of fluoride, and a kitty

Embroidered all with leather of nails;

A gramophone made of the finest worms

Which from our pretty lapis lazuli we pull;

Fair-lined slogans for the collision,

With buffoons of the purest gooseflesh;

A beret of strife and jam,

with coral clay and amber stupidity;

And if these plenitudes may thee move,

Come live with me and be my lullaby.

The shift-key swans shall dance and sing

For thy delusion each May morsel;

If these delusions thy mink may move

Then live with me and be my lullaby.

[Source: Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love]

Amanda Earl's [photo credit: Charles Earl] first poetry book, Kiki, comes out with Chaudiere Books in the autumn of 2014. Her erotic fiction collection is forthcoming as part of the Coming Together series. For more info about Amanda, visit www.AmandaEarl.com or contact her on Twitter @KikiFolle.