poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on When Did You Walk Away? by TLRufener.

zodiac16 Nov 2005

Yes, but most of your questions have answers, and most of those answers are either yes or no. To name a few others,

Q: Where have equality slipped off to?
A: It was never here. You've been taken by an equality impersonator with a bad accent.

Q: Did you ever hear me cry?
A: No. And I don't want to. Stop that right now, mister.

Q: Did the Angel knock upon your door?
A: If it did, I was in the shower.

Q: Did they carry you away?
A: Who? Weren't you talking about one angel? Um, no.

Q: When you looked into their eyes did they option you to stay?
A: No. Nice grammar though.

Q: What did I do to make them take you from me?
A: You have to believe in them to make them come, usually accompanied by saying 'Angel, Angel, Angel' in a mirror at exactly midnight. Buying an Angel tv-show box-set does it too.

Q: When did you walk away?
A: Easy. Right before I wasn't there any more. Time to move on.

What I'm trying to say is that people read poems be spoonfed answers, or to check their answers against someone else's. If I ever did think of a question I thought had no answer, I'd avoid putting it in a poem, for fear some reader who knew the answer would think I was kind of dumb. You can't say I'm not talking about your poems.