Old-fashioned Requited Love

 I HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias
And slid my fingers among topics and titles
Looking for you.


And the answer comes slow.

There seems to be no answer.


I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it.


Or—the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube in summer sunlight—maybe he will know.

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