By Guenter Sahr
Love.
Love! You want to know about
Lourve?
e-harmony claims someone
finds lourve every 14 minutes.
And because there must
be a receiver and a giver,
by my reckoning that’s an
ecstatic 4.3 couples per hour.
Or, 102.72 per day,
719.04 per week,
37,390.08 per year.
Think of it!
37,390 couples
or 74,780 someones, all finding love.
And I aint one of ‘em,
Never have been, never shall be!
Because …
Because I’m not on e-harmony.
I spend too much time at poetry sessions
reading into microphones redolent of beer,
dazzling audiences whose eyes seek
the bottoms of their glass canoes,
some clicking their fingers
in habitual rejoinder.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Guenter Sahr is a former advertising copywriter, teacher of English and developer of curriculum guidelines for the teaching of writing. Retired, he devotes more time to his passion for poetry. His work has been published in Cordite Poetry Review.