What a triumph it is
To truly love something
About your own
Body.
Before the crash and
Burn,
I remember turning to him
as we drove by
Our ocean,
and posing to him-
Which one of my moles
Do you like the best?
He was smiling
Anyway and said
I love it too...
And I knew
The end.
Painting by August Macke, 'Couple at the garden table' c. 1914, in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.