This poem
clearly loves you.
But this poem
loves you foggily too.
This poem love you
in meteorologically uncertain terms.
And this poem has no clue
how to even begin
to express
its overwheming love
to you, the target,
the absorbent
of all this love.
This poem
is greatly
embarrassed, abashed
and stands about
rather like a rhinosurrus
on the veldt,
thinking rhinocerous
thoughts of love
in its great big
stupid rhinocerus
heart, so dumb
it can't even spell
its own name
correctly! Because it
mulls its love for you
the way a river
mulls a rinocirrus.
Did you notice
the rhino spelled its name
wrong so many ways?
Well, if you did
then you are probably
not nearly in love
as deeply as this rhino.
You are clearly composed,
and no true love poem
should be clearly composed.
It's indecent. Embarrassing.
To see how unlike
a rhinaserus you really are,
when it comes to matters
of the heart and its deep
love for its own confusion.
You are probably a tour guide
of love. Probably you're perched
in that annoying tourist van
holding that microphone we hate
so much. Signed, Yours Truly,
a Heartsick Rinosirus.
Friday, November 13, 2009
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