(Poem #199)Romantic Moment After seeing the documentary we walk down Canyon Road, Into the plaza of art galleries and high end clothing stores Where the mock orange is fragrant in the summer light And the smooth adobe walls glow fleshlike in the dark. It is just our second date, and we sit down on a bench, Holding hands, not looking at each other, And if I were a bull penguin right now I would lean over And vomit softly into the mouth of my beloved And if I were a peacock I’d flex my gluteal muscles to Erect and spread the quills of my cinemax tail. If she were a female walkingstick bug she might Insert her hypodermic probiscus directly into my neck And inject me with a rich hormonal sedative Before attaching her egg sac to my thoracic undercarriage, And if I were a young chimpanzee I would break off a nearby treelimb And smash all the windows in the plaza jewelry stores. And if she was a Brazilian leopardfrog she would wrap her impressive Tongue three times around my right thigh and Pummel me softly against the surface of our pond And I would know her feelings were sincere. Instead we sit awhile in silence, until She remarks that in the relative context of tortoises and igunanas, Human males seem to be actually rather expressive And I say that female crocodiles really don’t receive Enough credit for their gentleness, Then she suggests that it is time for us to go To get some ice cream cones and eat them. |
Romantic Moment -- Tony Hoagland
Valentine -- Wendy Cope
(Poem #198)Valentine My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. |
Math Is Beautiful and So Are You -- Becky Dennison Sakellariou
(Poem #197)Math Is Beautiful and So Are You If n is an even number then I’ll kiss you goodnight right here, but if the modulus k is the unique solution, I’ll take you in my arms for the long night. When the properties are constrained as well as incomplete, I’ll be getting off the train at this stop. However, if there is some positive constant, then I’ll stay on board for a while longer. When it says that the supremum deviates from the least zero, my heart closes off. But if all moments are infinite and you can hear me, I will open out for you. This sequence satisfies the hypothesis of uniformity, and because we know that approximation is possible and that inequality is an embedding factor, come, let’s try once more. |