I fell in love with a man
who played chess
with the neighbor's cat
a man with one good suit
and a pair of shoes -
black Keds with red shoestrings
double-knotted.
He impaled my heart
with love notes thumb-tac'd
to the headboard while I slept -
notes that read:
"I just kissed your big toe!"
and
"You have 146 eyelashes."
When rain washed the sun away
he emulated a tragic Poe,
claimed his soul
was broken to the bone
as he wrote by the window
he said words were black birds
that scratched the face
of a milk white moon -
I wonder now,
seven Septembers since then,
what ever happened to the poetry
he wrote for me
I have only one and it begins:
"I fell in love with a woman
who cheats at chess..."
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