Korean Poem

Love 3
        -- A Tale of Defoliants

Narcissus: a man who loves only himself.
Echo: a woman who loves only him.

He says:
Why do you love me?
Echo repeats:
Love me.

He says:
Please don't come near me!
She says:
Come near me!

Narcissus: a man who knows what he means.
Echo: a woman who (mistakenly) repeats what he says.

Every love contains the tongue's defoliant.
A liquid that makes the tongue curl up accompanies each kiss.

(Korean Poem by Kim Seung-Hee on Walking on a Washing Line: Poems of Kim Seung-Hee. 2011. p. 193.)