No Big Deal
©1991 Susan Noyes Anderson
Okay, I kinda like you, but
it’s really no big deal.
Don’t think I’m feeling all that stuff
those crazy poets feel.
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Okay, I kinda like you, but
it’s really no big deal.
Don’t think I’m feeling all that stuff
those crazy poets feel.
The dirtiest word
I’ve ever heard is
“sickness.”
Pneumonia
is a menace,
that’s for sure.
You make my liver quiver
and my heartbeat change its pace.
You make my neck hairs shiver
and my brain waves lose their place.
She’s one of a kind.
She’s sheer delight
wrapped up in pure
frustration––
an open invitation
to go wacky
or be happy
with
confusion, chaos and intrusion
into your life’s order.
Let me call you sweetheart,
I’m in love with you.
Let me call you Snookums,
Toots, and Poopsie too.
If I don’t really have
some terrible
disease
and shouldn’t really be
laying
flat on my back
then
I’m a terminal
hypochondriac
I almost divorced my body
a couple of years ago.
Certainly, we were separated.
Irreconcilable differences.
Just for a change I’d like to make
a change this very day–
I’d like to do the things that all
those mothering books say.