Off into the sunset …

2.          Love

When you have been captured by pirates
And hauled up insanity’s cliffs
By a hippopotamic landmass
Of a giant;

When pursuit has not been thwarted
By an ambidextrous swordsman,
Or the most dizzying intellect
In all of Sicily;

When the promises of a villainous prince
Prove false, and his clergyman
Is persuaded to pronounce you
“Man and wife”;

When dreams disappear in the pit of despair
As the […]