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"Hey babe, you ought to write that sonnet and..."
by
Abraham Piper
"Hey babe, you ought to write that sonnet and
win us a bed," she said, "Oh, and it's got
to be about your love for me." "Demand-
ing, don't you think?" I asked. She said, "It's not."
"My love," I pled, "good sonnets have a twist
around line twelve and that takes wit." "Oh, give
it up!" she said. "A twist? Who cares! I've missed
your lame old doggerel for years. Now live
up to the gushiness I know is in
your heart. No need to put a twist in it.
Just write a sappy poem for me." "You win,"
I said, "I'll write a poem and gush a bit,
but it'll have to be a different one,
since this one's almost finished. There. It's done.
About the Author
 Abraham Piper lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son, both of whom he fondly gushes over. He blogs at 22 Words.
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From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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