Beauty
Thy cheeks are rosy red--oh, shoot, what are the rules of a sonnet?
I can't write a sonnet if I don't know the rules! It would look
Like, like, like some dumb poem that tried to be a sonnet and failed miserably
Help! What can I do??? Anybody, anybody??? Does anybody know how
To write a sonnet? I CAN'T DO THIS!!! I'm going to cry now.
Maybe I should throw this in the trash and start over.
Maybe I should forget about a sonnet entirely.
Okay, here we go.
The Lemony Mists
There is a lemony mist, a mist that lifts to reveal--this is Greek!
Nobody can read Greek! Forgive the pun, but Greek is Greek to me.
The Lemony Mists
There is a lemony mist, a mist that lifts to reveal. . .
A lemon cake with a cherry on top.
Can you tell me why there's a lemon cake without a lemon peel
In a place that was recently frequented by a lemony mist?
Perhaps it was looking for a clothing store
And lost its way, ending up on a meringue mountain top.
So it's a terrible guess. Would your guess's quality be more
Under these circumstances?--who am I kidding here??
Okay, that's it.
Paper, you are going in the trash.
I'm starting something better on a better piece of paper.
July '97
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