I Want To Be Your Poet
I want to surprise you in the morning
with an overcoat of sourdough toast.
I’ll build a rowboat of swan feather pillows
to take you to work while you nibble on strawberries.
I’ll kiss the back of your knees
from under your desk while you do
the accounts payable.If anyone bothers you at work
I will lead them through one magical door,
then another magical door,
through an unfathomable labyrinth
to finally end at a very small
bathroom with no toilet
from which they will never return.I will take you to lunch in a rocket.
We’ll eat on the moon and throw
moon rocks at each other
and fill our space helmets full of goldfish.When you’re not looking,
I’ll put stars in your purse
and later when you reach for a stick of gum
you’ll be declared the queen of the galaxy
right after your two o’clock controllers meeting.Yes, you can tell everybody
I carved your cell phone from a Redwood
and Starlings fly from it whenever
you get a call. I don’t mind.When you take off your shoes at the end
of the day I want to mail them off
to Columbia and have them filled with bananas.If you walk slow enough,
I will plant flower beds full of playful kittens
in every barefoot step you take.I will make you a salad of children’s giggles
and I will serve you a steaming roast
on the back of a motorcycle racing
150mph toward a hot tub full of chocolate mousse.I’ll arrange for a ride on a dolphin after dinner
spurting wine out of its blowhole
into your clearest crystalline goblet.And when you’re ready for bed
I will dance you off
to a bed of a million
cotton balls where we will make
love a thousand kisses deep,
the way one should
when one wants to take advantage
of their very own poet.
Scott Poole is the “House Poet” for the weekly radio variety show Live Wire!, distributed nationally by Public Radio International. He is the author of three books of poetry, the latest being The Sliding Glass Door. He lives in Vancouver, WA with his wife and two children and makes his living as software developer. His favorite romantic comedies are Seems Like Old Times, When Harry Met Sally, Barfly and A New Leaf.
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