Do you like to cook?
- Dating site survey question
It's like listening to yourself
wrapping your arms around your own consciousness
(for the first time, perhaps?)
profiling your soul for a prospective mate
classifying your style
as egoistic or altruistic or both
or neither
the morality of the street
in five easily-mastered lessons
unencumbered by the cheering of the sandlot crowd
as you (or your clone) round second base
on the shadeless, macadamed ball field
carefully adding ballpointed tattoos
to your forearms between innings:
and now ladies and gentlemen
stepping up to the plate: Finnegan Beginagain
sunshine springing eternal
as his beautifully spotless mind
embraces the spectators
backpack filled with life's lessons learned
(a tad light, if you ask me)
the true (north) meaning and why it matters
comfortably ensconced
in a goldleafed pyramid scheme
which, if followed sacrilegiously, is guaranteed
to tag the long ball of happiness far out of the park,
the pearly gates agape
with peace, love, and all that jazz.
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| Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Canova |