Archive 05/13/10

 

   

If It Weren't For . . .

                                                                  

Once, love was just another of youth's stumbling blocks,

A bump in the road leading to the realities of life,

Its unities of time, place, and action, its verities of the heart.

Just so you might know that I, as a highly sophisticated poet,

Am also fallible, human, flawed, not indefectible...

 

OK, to get back on track, right my ship,

Recover from my absolutely unnecessary, gratuitous digression,

Resume my verse disquisition on matters of the heart,

Today's state of affairs, so to speak, if you will, et cetera,

Let me just say this: love sucks the big one.

 

"How do you know this?" you might be so moved as to inquire,

Ask, petition, beg, beseech, exhort, force me to confess,

Disclose, spill the beans, sing like a canary in a coal-mine shaft.

I know love's not worth its weight in bat guano, horse pucky,

Rat turds, roach feces, cow pies, dung of unicorn and Uroboros,

 

Because if it weren't so shitty, I'd be sitting real pretty, right now,

Considering I have fourteen wives and assorted lovers,

Distaff acquaintances, horizontals, odalisques, hookers, floozies,

In as many cities and hamlets scattered across this grand land of ours...

Sitting in the fabled catbird seat, if it weren't for...

 

Sitting high on the hog, on a throne made of anything but fool's gold,

Which is precisely at the heart and head of the stumbling block

Clogging the road from Easy Street to Paradise Now or Never,

Over which I've been traveling, for the past thirty-six years...

If it weren't for the fact that my love's luck has run out,

 

Run dry, run into a cul-de-sac, run awry, run amok, run asunder,

Run afoul of the law of probability's uneven odds and dead ends,

Led me to this debilitating turn in the bend of the road, turn of events,

Turn-the-other-cheek humiliation,

On my reaching my final destination: erectile dysfunction, impotency.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                               

 

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