Woman

They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied, "Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."
Wallace Stevens


This is Rita.
She laughs at all my jokes.

Do you think she looks a little
like a military man?

I think of her as a blue guitar.

I'm going to take her
out to dinner
and treat her
to a bottle of wine
and a pepperoni pizza.

Perhaps then
I'll take her home
and we'll sit on the sofa
with a sister or two.

She's well-proportioned isn't she?

I told her
that her bum doesn't look big in this.

Lovely Rita

Woman