She longs for the loud mouth action man
While I am of the diffident dreamy tribe.
However, if life of the party is her desire,
Then let’s get the show on the road will be
My jocund motto, and later, when I tell her
She’s looking good tonight, her chatoyant
Sidelong glance and the adamantine luster
Of her brown hair will ignite or intensify
My pit bull dog determination to please her,
This young woman whose name is Cynthia.
Though I am seventy-one to her twenty years,
I take heart from the audacious marriage of
Peter Paul Rubens to Hélène Fourment,
Who was sixteen. Rubens was fifty-three!
