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Sonnet 1 2025 'You Are Become a Dodge of Love My Dearest'

You are become a dodge of love, My Dearest… Or there are arrows other than my own, That would entendril you once they have pierced, That will deprive you of a higher throne… Yet, I'll not Queen you yet, before time bends, And you are sought by sots who drink perfume, For I will know, before, what are your ends And I will read the threads upon your loom. There is no other, better man than me! And yet, you dodge my arrows all the while, And tell me you do stay while then you flee Or come these paradoxes to beguile? There is no better arrow at the ends Than tells that we be lovers and not friends.

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Date: 2/11/2025 10:48:00 PM
just gorgeous--love the confidence of--"There is not other, better man than me!" This is the one she should choose and be done with any other of the perfume drinking sots! :)
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Andrew Fairchild
Date: 3/16/2025 3:20:00 PM
Thanks, P.S.! I am always grateful to you for continuing to read my pieces

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