SIRS: Poem seeks POET! FOR fantastic fun LIFE. Must be mature and free to travel. Me: Unfinished..craftily conceived by the stroke of a pen! multi-lingual and verse-a-tile, A-hem! full of surprises and inventions, but not! appreciated by the general poetry loving public, –LOVE! meditating with the monks; swimming with cetaceans in deep ocean rivers; or simply hanging – pendulously – on a rope off the side of a cliff making love with the MOON! boxing shadows over the crispy pre-dawn waves; and if we fall in the abyss, C’est la vie, –Sinatra, you,YOU! Unpublished, unemployed, and underrepresented, –living in Mom’s basement? with a guitar and harmonica; and two or three chords and a cat..or glockenspiel if you will, YOU! are a heroic someone who dares taking risks, dauntless! unafraid of the social ostracization, –or any other thing! intimately familiar with the sting of rejection’s up close and personal, even..feckless DEATH! repeatedly!! slings, arrows, and all of the rest of it..spear-guns. Your durability’s legendary (with the cop’s), your sensitivity to aRT’s, one of the Modern Wonders! Me? I’m yours! you’re my Poet Laureate ‘Billy’ Shakespeare and I shall be..your muse! amused? To-do’s: 1) Make contact, –Write me down on a scrap of loose paper in your typical scrawl, doctor-ily, and straight from the heart..ad libitum! no scratch-out’s or second guesses permitted; for extra points, dust off that old ROYAL portable, insert a sheet – standard 8 1/2 x 11 – and type it up! 2) Delicately, enter me in the next Poetry Contest comes rolling down the tracks like a desirous streetcar, plunging into that “..dark and stormy night.” and see what beautiful music we make together, according to, –Them! NEA, NPR..FBI? &NASA; or any of the other 50+ SO-CALLED experts..nincompoops! Oy!! and – next stop – Si! the presidents hanging the prized golden medal for poetry upon your proud, sweating neck in the White House Reception Area..hoary head bent down, chin tucked in chest, eyes squeezed shut (in ecstasy) to receive due recognition, Ach! long overdue, too, –’cause we’re so good together! you and me, what a great relationship!! without you, I could not BE! YOU are thee greatest poet!! I adore you..you, you,YOU! Love, Your Poem