How is it
the faint insinuation
of resemblance
is seductive,
but
the brute fact of sameness—
two self-
similar peas
trapped in the
dark of their
literal pod—smells
to our noses
more than a little rotten?
*
kinky similarities
of language
troubling
or attractive?—
or have you been sucked
into the paperback-unstable
romance
between them both?
*
Perhaps rhyme
is a cup of sugar
one word
lends another.
Perhaps it is right
to attribute
meaning
to pattern—
or perhaps
it's merely pretty
common.
