I Love You. Who Are You?

For several years in middle age I fell in love
With celebrated women, Maria Callas and
Miss Monkey Business (from a local band),
Then Dolly Parton. O Dolly, in the spirit of the flesh,

Dolly any woman met any place l'd ever been.
And later in the evening of that night
I asked if she would shed
That blond Aldebaran wig and the make-up, please,

Spike heels and that tightest
Cowgirl sequined dress she wore,
Then the reins that held her breasts.
And there in the mirror we beheld

The girl she'd lost along the way
She was so tiny I was taller
Than I'd ever been,
And, Sing for me, I begged.

I'm any man met anywhere
Who does not matter, and will not, ever.
She sang that song about lost love and bad men,
And there was me, a bad, lost loveable man again,
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