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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.