A couple years ago I mentioned to my husband how many poems about love there were on my favorite literature/art site (deviantART). Falling in love.... being in love.... breaking up. Poem after poem. Shortly thereafter he came to me with the February 2005 issue of National Geographic. It featured an article on Love, focusing on the the biochemical aspects thereof. "Read it." he said, "It explains how love is like a mental illness. You should write a poem about THAT!"
And so I did...
They said that it was Breaking News
A triumph scientific
Not one minute did they lose
The message was specific...
‘Neath camera’s glare the man announced
In an excited wheeze
“Our studies show this thing called LOVE
Is akin to a mental disease!”
Perplexed and stunned, the crowd was still
No reaction did they show
Till one man shouted, “Tell us please
A thing we don’t already know!”
“Mushy poems on Valentine’s Day
Rings that swallow half our pay,
Not happy till your wife you’ve made ‘er
A screaming brat comes nine months later...”
“D’you think we’d go through all that pain
If LOVE were something that was sane?”
1 comment:
The love guru's can devine all the neuroscience and psycho babble they want (see current Time issue)and what do we get ... deep voices for the guys and hip to waist ratios for the gals. Simply brilliant stuff.
Listen up boys 'n girls to ole PJ here .... after decades of field research the prime variant why we flirt and love is .... alcohol.
Cheers.
PJ
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