When you say love

This is what she said

Your voice sounds shy when you say love

I'm not the romantic lover the kind you see on TV

that commercial the couple in a pigeon-filled plaza and the man shouting

I - love - this - woman

and the frightened birds and him giving her a diamond ring

what we have is meat and potatoes the beef, boy, it's that solid

She told me some story she'd seen on Ripley's Believe it or Not a man had his wife embalmed

He propped her up in the bedroom where he has tea with her

he wanted to see her beautiful face every day

couldn't bear to live without her to bury her

What do you think about that she asked I said I thought the man had a serious problem

No she said he loves her

but it's not her It's a dead body

it shows how much he loved her when she was alive

Do you love me that much

I said I would prop her up in the bedroom if she died and I'd never marry again

and this is what she said

Your voice sounds shy