David Fewster

FINDING TRUE ROMANCE WITH THE FEATURED READER

AT THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON FRYE MUSEUM POETRY SERIES

Look at her finger

for sign of wedding band

O Muse  O Refuge

The program says you are a

Corporate Interior Designer at Microsoft

You are so slim,

so blond,

so clean

And where the hell did you

Get that tan?

I feel we are kindred spirits

Can you feel my love from the back

of the auditorium?

Let us live together forever--

I don't have any furniture,

so you don't have to worry about anything

clashing with your present decor.

Anyhow, I already know that

I'll just adore

your place.

And if it indeed turns out

you already have a husband

Get rid of him.

Is he a poet? I doubt it.

No, he will never understand you

As I do,

For I am twice the man he is,

Being both poet AND lover,

With all my energies given to nothing

But poems and love,

Seeing as I don't waste calories

On anything as pedestrian as

A job.

O Yuppie Priestess

Entwine me in your arms and let

the multifarious facets of our passion

Engulf us in their riches

Like the gold highlights

Of your sundrenched hair

Or the stock options splitting

Like motes in the depths

Of your sea-green eyes.

(Illustration: Picasso, 'Harlequin' 1901)