By Guenter Sahr
Love.
Love! You want to know about
Lourve?
e-harmony claims someone
finds lourve every 14 minutes.
And because there must
be a receiver and a giver,
by my reckoning that’s an
ecstatic 4.3 couples per hour.
Or, 102.72 per day,
719.04 per week,
37,390.08 per year.
Think of it!
37,390 couples
or 74,780 someones, all finding love.
And I aint one of ‘em,
Never have been, never shall be!
Because …
Because I’m not on e-harmony.
I spend too much time at poetry sessions
reading into microphones redolent of beer,
dazzling audiences whose eyes seek
the bottoms of their glass canoes,
some clicking their fingers
in habitual rejoinder.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Guenter Sahr is a former advertising copywriter, teacher of English and developer of curriculum guidelines for the teaching of writing. Retired, he devotes more time to his passion for poetry. His work has been published in Cordite Poetry Review.
John
Great poem G but better not show it to Lucy. You two have been in love since the beginning of time!
Jo Curtain
Hi Guenter
I enjoyed your piece very much. It is a thoughtful, witty and thought-provoking reflection of dating sites manipulation of the data.
Jo
fern smith
There are two favourite lines and one new word.
… bottoms of their glass canoes…
… habitual rejoinder.
new word rejoinder – slap back retort
thank you
Guenter
John: yes, my poem does take some poetic license here … authorised by Luci!
Jo: e-harmony’s TV adverts have now moved from the quantitative to the qualitative (go figure!).
Fern: the “glass conoes” reference is of course nothing original from me; it’s my literary genuflection to Australian fiction writer, David Ireland (The Glass Canoe, a very good social critique). If you haven’t been to one of Geelong’s lowercasewriting poetry evenings, then try to get yourself along to their open-mic opportunities; the habitual rejoinders from the audience is by way of their finger-clickings (very daunting at first!).