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Originally Posted by Esther Murer
this is off the self-help topic, but I can't resist putting it in:
To my muse
"An example of [sentimentality] might be a poem in which an excess of emotion is lavished on a floor lamp." — Ted Kooser |
I wooed a lovely standard lamp,
So elegant, so sexy;
Her fuse a mighty 15-amp,
Her cable long and flexy.
For many months her gorgeous glow
Lit up my lonely life,
Until the day I courted woe
By pleading 'Be my wife'.
She almost broke her bulb at that,
So loudly did she sneer
'What! Marry you, a balding, fat
Old dork? Get outa here!'
That ended it. But still I weep
To think the light that shone
And woke a love that slept so deep
Is gone, is gone, is gone...