The True,Real,No-Kidding This Time Meaning of Love

Note: The National Enquirer recently printed an incredibly true story, giving the details of a lawsuit filed by a disbruntled magician,against the Rev. Jim Bakker. The magician had implored his young wife and assistant, "Bambi", to attend marriage counseling with the (sort of)Reverend Jim Bakker was incensed because Mr. Bakker assigned the case to his pastor, "Bob", a former soap star who DID help the couple achieve closure. -Unfortunately, Bob did that by running off with  Bambi. -But, according to a source "close to the people involved" [would you actually ADMIT it if you knew ANY of these people?],what galled the magician/plaintiff MOST, was that Bob and Bambi had taken with them-
(without permission) 
his "specially trained Kangaroo".
The magician's heartfelt cri de couer, awoke the Muse in my soul. [She naps a lot, my Muse.]
Herewith, a Pome:


kangaroo doggerel: a plea




How could you do

This to me, who

Has loved you so long!

Oh the disaster!

You ran off with our pastor

And that’s not all too!

When you ran, 
you took my heart

My money; most expensive art;

But

What

turned my heart deep blue

Was that you took-

You awful crook-
You took

My Specially Trained

Kangaroo.

I see you now, you three (-or two-

Just two without the kangaroo)

(Or three ,if you include him too);

(Or four:my poor heart makes one more);

All of us-I mean all of you-

Are riding into a sunset, ooh.

Just you and him

And me and you

And a wellworn

 didgereedoo

And of course

That’s not a horse

It’s way too cool

it’s our specially trained but

-who knew? so cruel!-

     Kangaroo

Now I am not a bitter man

But dear it does seem cruel

After all that I looked past

To  do this last thing too

[spoken:]

I forgave you

When you strayed with my best friend

My catchers’ mitt

A vat of organic peanut butter

Some Filipino acrobats

And a cockatoo-

Hey,

I thought it was just an amour fou!

But now I know better

Since I got your letter:

With a picture of You

And him,
that swine with whom you flew,

And worst of all

What hurts of all

It’s true

In the middle of the two

of you

is him!

Is Jim:

My Extremely

Specially Trained

And Ungrateful

HardHearted

Kangaroo!




By Peri Lyons, The Poet Who Understands. -Sort of. 2011