Poetry Month Prompt #18

April 18: 

Write a love poem to someone or something you dislike or even hate. You can use double entendre, contradiction, sarcasm, but it must be a love poem. 

From the Muse Library: Desire: Poems by Frank Bidart: “I hate and–love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.–from “Catullus: Excrucior” In Frank Bidart’s collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains some of Bidart’s most luminous and intimate work-poems about the art of writing, Eros, and the desolations and mirror of history (in a spectacular narrative based on Tacitus). The second half of the book exts the overt lyricism of the opening section into even more ambitious territory-“The Second Hour of the Night” may be Bidart’s most profound and complex meditation on the illusion of will, his most seductive dramatic poem to date.”