how do lepers love?
without touching??

don’t touch

me
Touch me
Don’t
I am Ticklish
ticklish to your touch,

Then, my love, am I your leper?
please let me be yours

let our skins meet if they do

we are
Diseased as lepers in a grateful community
of touching, committed lovers who have no no boundaries, lovers of flesh

if not, then we are no longer able to imagine a touch, or feel a love

one touch, of love no
longer exists, no longer is practical, if, if my touch tickles

too 2
one