Together Forever

By Shelley M. Latreille

I fell into your eye that fine day.
All of your trigonometric functions fell radically into place.
Our secret plastic relations were forbidden.
But, we swam naked through secrecy and deception anyway.
Our bodies became one and you were my crustacean.
We ate well each day in that swelled up bubble of yours.
I licked the dirt from your body as you ate mine.
But, we knew it would never last for they were bound to end it.
Our mating souls would be ripped apart and crushed with ease.
So, on the Wednesday before our bloated fate,
I ripped apart and dismembered your body with anticipated vigor,
throwing it comically into the river of life.
I watched carelessly as the pieces of you floated away.
Your proteins were lifeless now, but never lost.
On that glorious day, the grieving mob came for me.
I laughed at their wickedness and sadness.
I lashed out at them as they shoved me into their cage.
Weeks went by as I sat waiting in anguish,
huddling deep inside myself, screaming with vicious howls.
And suddenly, they came for my limp and festering body.
They shoved it roughly into their metal chair.
As the chair powered on, I gloriously smelled burning flesh.
It was mine and I loved it, like the eggplant that I was.
And then it was over and there you were,
standing as you always had, your body whole again,
welcoming me with open arms for all eternity.