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There's folly in my stubbornness, declining to accept
that the step must come of calling down the curtain
for a certain end to all this shilly-shallying
ballyhoo, which masquerades as an affair.
I should spare my pride from grovelling scenes when I plead
the need for a final opportunity to woo
your screwed up mind, in persistent hope that I'll find
some final glimmer of tender reciprocation.
My relationship with you is the luckless card
I can't discard, after constant shuffles of the pack -
racking my brains to devise (from a hand redealt)
some winning combination from the dull digits.
It must be I'm a masochist at heart,
in bringing abject shame to such an art.