Reading: Counterparty Risk

I should 
Look up terms
Like counterparty risk 
Before using them 
In poems about love 

Be responsible 
With the language 
To which 
We share a 
Vast unreciprocated duty 
(Which itself is love)

But it is a thrill 
In writing poems about love 
To risk looking foolish and 
Outmatched by words and 
Attempt surgery 
With no training and 

Wrap ligaments of experience 
Around bodiless 
Contract law idioms and 

Suggest the
Septic dread of all
That can go wrong in love the 
Unpaperable terror and thrill 
When always in love we 

Risk looking foolish and 
Outmatched by words and 
Attempt surgery 
With no training 

May 2021