1. A Change of Menu

Serve the roast pork, Charles

I feel in the need for something more

Than pasta tonight

And your mistress has drunken all

The wine

That I would normally serve

With the salad and lasagna.

2. Old Spice

She wore a skirt

Knowing my weakness well

I wore Old Spice

Knowing hers

3. Request for Consideration

Be kind, dear heart:

I am not in the mood

For jests tonight

Or the practical joke

That is your life

Or for that matter,

The melodrama

That is mine

02/02/2006

Author's Note: Once more, in tribute to the short poetry of the Muse

Posted on 02/02/2006
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