And I Love Her
Anniversary number eight
Is right around the corner
And all I’ve got for her
Is a bag of jellybeans
I bought with my food stamp card
And a stack of rambling
Self-conscious love poems
That any junior college
English Lit professor
Would be proud to display
On the faculty water cooler
Part plagiarist
Part lunatic
If I could
Rip my own heart out
Cover it in gold-leaf
And deliver it her
On a silver platter
I would
Because her love
Simply put
Has saved me
From an endless
Night of pain
David Burdett
1/13/2024
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