Sometimes you can find some actually really great things on Craigslist (and they generally are literary pieces, not partners. I still think Craigslist is the residue that gets scraped off the bottom of the barrell.)
Got this submission and I kind of adore it. Not because I would want to go out with this person, but because someone put forth the effort to do something different — even IF he is just another married dude looking for a skinny, slutty girl to fuck.
You decide.
This makes me want to go bury my nose in my Shakespeare at home and get refamiliar with Iambic Pentameter.
Craigslist, now in Iambic Pentameter! – 23 (Kalamazoo)
Desire thee not the torment of the heart,
But still the pleasures of the bedchamber?
Lust thee not for the strings of emotion,
But instead alone for the body’s joys?Want thee the company of man so fair,
To share in the embrace of sweet Eros,
To revel in the delights of the flesh
And let soar the soul to euphoric peaks?Wish thee not the struggles of courtship’s kind,
Or the chains of being bound to one love?
Want thee not caged like a bird in thy youth,
But rather to let thy spirit fly free?Art thou fair of face and slim of figure?
Art thou clean from pestilence of the loins,
And partake not in the poppy’s poison?
Then let us rejoice in another’s arms.Though I am a humble and guileless knave,
My body is free of plagues and poisons,
I have a pleasing visage, a keen wit,
And a frame built in Apollo’s fashion.Know thee that though I keep a lady love,
We bind not another’s carnal freedoms.
And I, while in the flower of my youth,
Wish to know the breadths of earthly passions.And so if this, fair and unknown lady,
Doth please thine eye, and thou consent know me,
Then deign send to me thine honest image,
And I shall share with you that of mine own.
What IS interesting to me is that I can’t imagine someone with an understanding of literature reading on Craigslist, seeking a “dicreet” encounter of some sort.
