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I don't believe in love

 

although like all faiths

I know that one too can return

 

(before firing squads

on falling planes 

or cast adrift at sea)

 

I’m agnostic not atheist then

ill equipped for philosophical or theological disputes -

knowing only that when I look to the heavens

I see no alignment in the stars

 

(or at least none concerning me)

and if I spy someone passing in the aisles

I know they will see right through me

 

(in both senses of that phrase)

and I will stir no pious ecstasy 

 

before they reach for their pasta or beans.