Something Like That Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Something Like That

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My aunt showed up today and when she saw
Me she said I had matured into quite a stud
And I could have any woman I wanted:
I tried to get away and she held me and made sure
She got a good look at both of my sides,
Like walls on a crimson church,
And yet she did not change her opinion;
And she’s one of my best looking aunts,
And quite insane:
She believes in Atlantis-
I tried to avoid her for the rest of the time she
Was there,
So she couldn’t get a good look at me again.
While I did this I wondered why so many women
Don’t have more brains,
Or at least balls,
Because I am in love with them all of them time,
And I really need something to cling on to,
Like a wave needs its wreath;
And then she came and went crazy over her two
Venal brothers,
Like rainwater over a red wheelbarrow or something
Like that,
But not really; it’s just that I’m pretty drunk now.
And want to finish up now
And leave this truck for the swings across the tiny,
Steady street
Where I will try to feel the moon and think about
Asking Diana out,
Before she disappears back into the forest and
The sea,
As Jove came riding towards her in the form of
A really red bull,
Or something like that.

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