Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: To a Lady Message-ID: <574@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 04:02:50 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.574 Posted: Tue Mar 6 04:02:50 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 05:42:36 EST Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 46 As is usual with my work, purists would not call this a poem, but here it is: TO A LADY I am not a poet. I cannot woo you with impromptu iambic pentameter. I can only say that I wish you hadn't cut your hair before I had a chance to experience its deep, thick richness with the depths of my fingers. I can only say that just because you aren't a WASP doesn't mean you're not beautiful. It's just that your beauty is of a different type-- rare unique priceless! I can only say that I do want to experience the deep, warm richness of your gentleness and sensitivity and understanding and compassion (which you cannot cut off) with the fingers of my soul. I can only say that I need you to touch me hold me (perhaps vouchsafe a kiss) help recharge this exhausted man; and let me try to return the favor-- let me be an oasis in your own desert of loneliness. And I need you to KNOW that you are beautiful... before you go -- -- Jeff Sargent {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|harpo|seismo|teklabs|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq ...drifting along with the tumbling terminals....