Dead Metaphor
- I plucked this metaphor
- from a public garden
- (I know it is illegal)
- Hold it by the stem
- Watch out for the thorns!
- The petals are classic
- Pandora—
- Get through without
- unveiling
- French perfume can’t
- hold a candle to its scent
- Go down on it
- with your face
- Fall
- and the bees lick you
- for pollen—
- roll you
- like sex
- into honey
- (This metaphor
- is no vehicle
- for hackneyed tenors)
- Let Zephyr
- gift it
- to a poet
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