PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

When They Say No Thank you. 

When you tell a guy that he’s not your type 

Make sure a hair is not hanging from your chin. 

When you tell a girl she’s too fat to dance, 

Make sure your eczema is not blooming behind your ears,

Your trousers secure, not showing cleavage.  

Tell a woman you look older

and do nothing to hide a sneer

Filled with missing teeth

When you sit back, booming 

That you don’t need hearing aids, and 

The table five rows over answers 

Yes you do. 

Wonder why the ladies shrink 

When you ask them to go for coffee?

The waitress more interesting than you? 

Perhaps it’s really is you, and

Not them.

Plenty of Fish:

Observation of online Dating,

Or Catch and Release 

There’s plenty of fish in the sea,

Plenty of fish, indeed.

POF of online fame

Should chastely be call,

Catch and release, if you please.

“I’m still married,

“It’s complicated, you see,

“But, maybe we can be, 

“‘Just friends.’

“(with benefits?)” , or

“I’m really 22, I just like older women.

“You wanna have fun?

“Can you lend me some money?”

But then, the gems do clear the forest

Of subs and doms, and

Those gloriously gorgeous 

Gift card grifters,

To reveal an artist, a poet,

A righter of wrongs

A doer of things

or, merely, someone, 

who can 

spell.

And the sparks fly,

And the flirting begins,

Numbers exchanged,

“I’ll give you a ring…”

It goes on for hours,

Sometimes for days,

After a week,

Into friend zone, you’ve strayed.

So, be quick on your mark,

Don’t let her outta your sight,

Cuz like any good fish in the sea,

She’s up, and over,

And on to, the next 

Shark.