The Worst Metaphors for Our Relationship
by Katie Vagnino
Court transcript with the juicy parts redacted
Banquet hall buffet wisdom teeth impacted
An ambulance driving with its siren off
Our once-firm mattress now going soft
Boring B-roll on the director's cut
Drug trial placebo pay-per-view smut
Marathoner on mile twenty losing steam
Chernobyl, Pompeii, Hiroshima a dream
Forgotten upon waking a play without plot
A gift basket of fruit just starting to rot
Asleep at nine on New Year's, too drunk
To get it up a flat tire, no spare in the trunk
A mine of conflict diamonds soufflé that won't set
A sing-song sonnet of rhyming couplets
Banquet hall buffet wisdom teeth impacted
An ambulance driving with its siren off
Our once-firm mattress now going soft
Boring B-roll on the director's cut
Drug trial placebo pay-per-view smut
Marathoner on mile twenty losing steam
Chernobyl, Pompeii, Hiroshima a dream
Forgotten upon waking a play without plot
A gift basket of fruit just starting to rot
Asleep at nine on New Year's, too drunk
To get it up a flat tire, no spare in the trunk
A mine of conflict diamonds soufflé that won't set
A sing-song sonnet of rhyming couplets