Love Nut
Narrated by Charles Rammelkamp
Maryland
THE LOVE NUT
I go into the men’s room Springfield bus station
on the way back to Muhlenberg County
and see this nut in the mirror
Who Iet in this weirdo Who let in this creep?
He’s the kind writes I LOVE YOU on toilet walls and wants to
embrace everybody in the lobby He writes his phone number
inside a heart on the wall He’s some kinda pervert Mister
Eros the Great Lover
He wants to run up to everybody in the waiting room and kiss
them on the spot and say Why aren’t we friends and lovers
Can I go home with you You got anything to drink or smoke
Let’s you and me get together The time is now or sooner
He wants to take all the stray dogs and cats and people home
with him and turn them on to making love all the time
wherever
He wants to scatter poems from airplanes across the landscape
He’s some kinda poetic nut Like he thinks he’s Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan rolled together with Charlie Chaplin thrown in
He wants to lip-read everybody’s thoughts and feelings and
longings He’s a dangerous nut He’s gotta be insane He has
no sense of sin
He wants to heat up all the dead-looking people the unhappy
looking people in bus stations and airports He wants to heat
up their beds He wants to open their lies and heads
He’s some kinda airhead rolling stone He don’t wanna be alone
He may be queer on men
He’s the kind addresses everybody on buses making them laugh
and look away and then look back again
He wants to get everyone to burst out laughing and sighing and
crying and singing and dancing and kissing each other including old ladies and policemen
He’s gotta be mad He’s so glad to be alive he’s real strange He’s
got the hots for humanity one at a time He wants to kiss
your breasts He wants to lie still between them singing in a
low voice
He wants everyone to lie down together and roll around together
moaning and singing and having visions and orgasms He wants to come in you He wants you to come with him He
wants us all to come together One hot world One heartbeat
He wants he wants us all to lie down together in Paradise in the
Garden of Love in the Garden of Delights and couple together like a train a chain-reaction a chain-letter-of-love
around the world on hot nights
He wants he wants he wants! He’s gotta be crazy Call the cops Take him away!