A Poem for Amanda

(1) She walks in splendor like the night
(2) Her eyes so thrill with tender light
(3) They gleam as stars of Twilight fair
(4) Like Twilight's too, her auburn hair.

(5) Shall we compare her to a summer's day?
(6) A wonder, and ever a child at play.
(7) Her velvet tones do soothe the ears,
(8) Assuage our hearts, calm all our fears.

(9 We heard the lowing of the Cattle,
(10) and Annie Laurie's plaintive wail,
(11) and ate a repast, not too Little,
(12) of Brie Cheese and of Lobster Tail.

(13) The world is full of mirth and wonder
(14) We see accord in great torn veils,
(15) Some vinegar, perhaps some plunder
(16) In Daniel's den and Jonah's whales.

(17) We heard the shot, elated ran
(18) To meet anew the champ's hired man
(19) And should the doll make rain or snow
(20) In static pools of lunar glow?

(21) The drama deep, intent to heaven
(22) To rid, ersatz, and top the seal anew
(23) Majestic courts, hippos seven
(24) With crocodiles, dance true, not blue.

(25) The prisoner scoffs at pure inertia,
(26) Shops at Shopko, Jaks, and Sears:
(27) For none can soar if blind, but Portia
(28) Who said of mercy: unstrained, no fears.

(29) Joel the seer wrote many verses,
(30) The volcanoes spew hot rocks of lime.
(31) The fishermen, forsaking purses
(32) Rotate the hourglass sand, soft time.

(33) The arrow missed, she arose all in white
(34) Then lounged around while people spoke
(35) The cards were free, jacks and kings all night
(36) Who sees the child, his thistle's broke?

(37) Some I've wooed and some I've married
(38) And some I've faxed the murderer tales.
(39) Some need full time for things to be married
(40) The telephone still lasts while all light fails.

(41) T'is said that lemon pulp, in fact or fiction
(42) Can stop axioms and disparate sweets.
(43) But even Nostradamus's last prediction
(44) Isn't found under the piano's music sheets.

(45) We've drunk sweet sips of berry wine,
(46) Made butter fly on candy canes and kisses.
(47) Then, left to right, tore mainly in a silent line,
(48) Our hysteria lead us to the freeway with many hisses.

(49) But we don't look like backwards men,
(50) Nor do we sound as deadly boys and girls
(51) And great Hercules and Achilles knew then
(52) That even the simplest wish can startle squirrels.

(53) Some say that an American can't be a traitor
(54) That the Dutch seek the perfekt shade of blue
(55) You can't kid Hank, me or Dick Slater,
(56) .When October's leaves fall two by two.

(57) Lou Ann, without a map to tell
(58) Found Elizabeth Jane's house in Essex
(59) Where a millionaire's dolls are hot as hell,
(60) Eight and a half women had great sex.

(61) If one had only seven days to live
(62) With hair fresh cut and newly shaven(?)
(63) Seen Roy's stuffed horse Trigger, men to give
(64) Or taken Parks, to get a clue for the Raven?

(65) When Manders was a young girl alone in her room
(66) She liked to dream of horses, ships, adventures great
(67) She oft would imagine tales as flowers that bloom
(68) In brilliant colors, sweet smells, bouquets of fate.

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