LOVE© is a poem written by Campbell McGrath and visually interpreted by ROBNESS (V2). McGrath has received numerous literary prizes for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA Knight Fellowship, and a Witter-Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Atlantic and on the op-ed page of the New York Times.
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LOVE©
I’ve got the copyright on love, honey baby,
Registered patent number such &
such. Don’t dillydally with saxifrage
& sassafras, don’t bother me with this & that,
don’t mix the salt in my vanilla. You think
a bird in the eye of the ocean of springtime
knows love? Cinnamon, I’m drowning in it.
Don’t tell me it’s cold because I’m burning
with it. I’ve got the trademark, I’ve got the copyright,
cupcake, sweet molasses, sugar pie.