Heart-shaped

(after a Marilyn Manson music video) 

two lovers in a car speeding
on a serpentine road dark
as the intention of the night.

while he drives, a reassurance of love
and photographs of her posing
seductively with a knife.

the road expands
while in their memories retrogresses
a scene of them bloody in bed,
fucking.

later on, he professes the last temptation
—together as one—
which she takes by the mouth
and spits back at him.
against all others, she says.

she is now driving.
(he has long been driven.)
role reversal on the fast lane.

he sets the car afire, kisses her.
she sends burning metal
crashing down a cliff.

their romance thickened
by the sound of which could be
the universe shattering.