I Love Your Body — Angela Brett's poetry show on JoCo Cruise 2021
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2021-04-25

A lot of love songs are along the lines of ‘I love your body; it has a fashionable shape (or an unfashionable shape which I contend is in fact the one good shape) and a comfortable place to put my genitals.’ This one is a bit different — it’s about loving your partner’s body without treating it like a piece of meat. At least, it started out that way, but then I wrote another version. Both versions are available as poems on my album:

https://angelastic.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-your-body
https://angelastic.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-your-body-alternative-version

and there’s also a musical version of both parts, sung by Joey Marianer and me: 

https://angelastic.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-your-body-live-on-radio-orange-ft-joey-marianer

I love your body 
The way it keeps you alive 
The way it lets you touch me 
The way it lets us communicate 
The way it gives you pleasant sensations 

I don’t love its flaws 
The way it hurts you 
The way it makes you sick 
The way it makes you tired 
The way it can’t do the things that you want it to 

But I love 
that you have it 
so that I can have you, 
because brains need energy 
and there’s no ESP 
that would show you to me. 

I love your body 
I hope it takes care of you 
and you of it 
for a love-filled lifetime. 

I love your body 
The way it feels like silk 
The way it looks good naked 
The way it smells like your perfume 
The way it tastes so good in a casserole 

I don’t love its flaws 
The way its flesh resists my knife 
The way its bones don’t decompose 
The way it won’t fit in my freezer 
The way its leftovers putrefied, and made my neighbour suspicious, and she tipped off the police, and there was a highly publicised trial, and now I’m in prison for life 

But I love 
that you had it 
so that I could have you, 
because brains need energy 
and there’s no KFC 
with home delivery. 

I love your body 
I hope to hold it forever 
and think of you 
with a love-filled belly.

The full show is at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0gVK9y3KGCNuwUADufNqmNk