Hear me
read
the poem as
an MP3 file.
Watch me
read
the poem as
a YouTube video.
Video Music: Serenade for Strings.
By Antonin Dvorak.
Performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra
at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike license.
How can I fall in love with only
words?
Words and pictures, grainy and compressed?
A jaypeg love is truly for the birds.
You'd have to wonder whether I'm repressed.
But love it is, through all the bits and bytes,
For someone who's like no one else I've met:
Tender, charming, bright, queen of my nights,
All I've ever dreamed of, on the Net.
And though she's living in a distant place,
I love her as I've loved no one before.
Will I ever get to touch her face,
Hold her in my arms and, perhaps, more?
Ay, me! No matter what, I'm still in love.
Through modems must our e-mailed passions
move!
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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