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Recorded Reading (2:33): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a1obrf09j0rkd4wnlxg7o/You-Can-Get-to-Know-Me-Well.mp3?rlkey=1s068c7vvpcpnz25tgpasx1kl&st=okb0oi1b&dl=0

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You Can Get to Know Me Well

You can get to know me well
Without having lies to tell
About where you might have been
Our last meeting in between

And this one
Or take me to lunch,
Museums, concerts,
Tea or brunch

Without having to stand in line
Pasting on a smile benign
Enduring some activity
Appeals to you most boringly

You won’t have to calculate
The cost of gifts I’d think were great
Or find a way to compliment
Behaviors awful I present

Tell me with crossed fingers that
An outfit doesn’t make me fat
Or countenance an ultra-mini
On a frame that’s much too skinny

Feel your face you ought to hide
While you try quickly to decide
If I’m full of class, but brash
Or rather simply am white trash

Have, even worse, to justify
Behaviors for which convinced I
Have by lifelong experiment
Developed educated bent

But seem to others thoughtless and
Unconsidered out of hand ~
Expense nor incovenience
Need be your own as you commence

Upon infatuation, first
Leaning immediat’ly to worse
As you begin to understand
Established scripts me not command

Nor do I wrapped in slogans go
But seek each moment’s right to know
In its own fully unique way ~
Won’t excuses to your friends to say

After I’ve been, loving, free
With unusual honesty,
Or aired opinion hadn’t known
Was not a carbon of your own…

Oh, the inconven’ient list
Of babysitting duties missed
Embarrassment, confusion and
Bound’ries pushed on every hand

Until at last, though saddened, know
You will have to ask me to go
Because you’re finding out you burn
To your sitcoms to return

Easy classifications you
Incline wearily mental to
Driven to what you’d wish avoid
Event’ual call me paranoid

Ego ridden, morbid, sly
My ears too wet, my wit too dry
As modern true love runs its course
And you sue me for divorce

You can bypass all of this
Remaining in unattached bliss
As in gentle, protective fog —
You only have to read my blog!

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