are we allowed a few books?

prose would be "love in the time of cholera" by gabriel garcia marquez but would also hope that my bag could hold "sometimes a great notion" by ken k ...

not so much a comment as a question.... why so hung up on classical imagery? sonnets are cool but rondells are cooler, but the images date it horribly, almost leave an anachronistic aftertaste.
as d ...

an old poem but done with long since; a reply to a drunken and way too late for common sense conversation.

Upon the flame, beyond the crackling fire,
we sit in tales embellished by each breath;
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seems to me that it's a fairly disengenious question really. i think that everybody wants love but maybe that we trip up over social expectations upon the definition and also upon patterns of behaviou ...