Future/Present poem
I bought an e.e. cummings poetry book: this is what resulted. (Okay, this hardly exemplifies my admiration for cummings, but I did split a word between two lines.)
Also, it’s fiction. Geez.
Also, also: three syllable lines!!
IV.
Dear future
husband, I
am sorry
but I have
(in retro-
spect) cheated
on you. Love,
forgive me
because I
didn’t know
you yet and
I thought you
wouldn’t mind
if I kissed
a man who
isn’t you
and let him
touch my breasts.
Dear present
wife, it’s fine.
I love you
anyway.
November 8, 2010