love is beautiful  like birds that sing
love is not ugly  like rats in a puddle of vomit
love is beautiful like the sunshine and the dancing wind
love is not ugly like pus and lice and tobacco snot
love is beautiful
love is beautiful  like all the little animals in a forest full of green
that smells like pine and wonder
love is not invisible brain control
and pain and malicious intent and lying all the time
although it can be all of these things and more
love is a many splendoured thing
it is not a shipload of slaughtered pigs rotting and festering in the bleating desert
love is what love is
and love is not what love is not