LOVEPLAY
| The Sophisticates We nursed our illusion of love, for its death was too tasteless to mention, and cultured our mutual scorn for suburban and civic convention. We were two of the beautiful folk, not the rabble that whistles and sniffs. We were charming and witty and chic and too civil for squabbles and tiffs. We directed our barbs with aplomb while carefully keeping our heads, for if we had aimed at those we most loathed we'd have torn one another to shreds. Linda |
Let's Get Along
I'm glad that your hatred's divluged, your most candid of feelings indulged. Though hypocrisy's battering truth can be shattering just like an artery bulged. I'm not saying it isn't your fault, but, like treasures you store in a vault, the delights from "back when" could be ours once again if we stopped treating blisters with salt. Joe |
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That's Life
I've met many a woman, forsooth, since the days of my innocent youth, and I've always succeeded as much as I needed except when I've told them the truth. Joe |
Ex-oneration or Nameless, Blameless And Out To Launch Don't think of yourself as a loser, a failure, a promise unkept. Consider that you are the springboard from which a lot of good women have lept. Linda |
From LOVEPLAY,
A Conversation in Rhyme ©Joe Fromstein 2004.
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