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The Trouble with a Love Poem

The muse has heard it all before.

Ever since that prehistoric man told the woman of his fancy, “Looking at you makes me want to say something where all the words end with the same sound,” then dragged her off to his cave to show her his etchings, many people’s first poetic efforts have been expressions of fondness and desire.

And no matter how bad the poem is, when the feeling is…