Love is an antibiotic.

We overdosed you on it to keep you from being sick.

We put hearts on your T-shirts, Hallmark cards, and watch hands 'cute'  that tick.

In our inane smiling world

our research indicated we should kill every microbe of sad.

We believed all thoughts infectiously dismal~ TO BE BAD

WE WANTED EVERYBODY SMILING

We made the dancing series Glee

added laugh tracks, sweeping movie scores

and Hello Kitty

Now we've noted a post-amorous era

an effect of our modern production line medicine

We shut down sad, slathered all happy

to see despair come up, love-resistant again & again

A sniffled teardrop could be deadly

A HEART ATTACK FROM A HUNG UP PHONE

Saddness is love resistant

because we didn't leave it alone

Even the sky understands the need to be blue

wipe away your smile

the untreatable infection is coming near you

post-amorous resistance is on the rise in Europe

in Copenhagen we're writing a book

we've changed the true nature of love

because of  sadness

in it's true value

we didn't look