Let me write you a poem Between blue lines and red crosses and silly hairstyles A poem that will eloquently tell How you shone like dim stars on a pitch black beach Figuratively Full of HYPERBOLES! and synecdoches About your misaligned teeth and your roaring, cackling laugh It will drown you in allusions, In perfectly crafted hybrid adjectives That will tell How you got caught in revolving doors And how I laughed. I hope you have seen the Spolarium Because the poem will use it to denote How I knew you were fine But I never knew you'd be so huge If you haven't, We can see it together
The poem will trump Poe and O'Hara and Bukowski and Neruda They will call it God's gift to Poetry Studied and deconstructed For the next few centuries
It was found taped under a desk they will say And they will scour the world to find That lovely mysterious beautiful person in the poem
Let me write you that poem So that when they find you Only the greatest people on this planet Will read it to you.
You will find it taped to the underside of a desk that is not mine because I never really meant for you to find it.