Long-Distance Love

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.

What did my hands do before they held you?

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Bobby Shaftoe’s gone to sea, Silver buckles on his knee; He’ll come back and marry me, Pretty Bobby Shaftoe.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives 40 miles away.

This poem will never reach its destination.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

I dote on his very absence.