Love Poem: Demon Already Loosed Out This Curmudgeon Beast
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Written by: Matthew Harris

Demon Already Loosed Out This Curmudgeon Beast

Ignominy hewed into comeuppance, 
where yours truly aggrieved state 
far worse fate  
than becoming deceased, though 
years gone by since meek kin 
grievously afflicted soundly did berate
  
deplorable marital indiscretion 
this mister (wordsmith) forced opaque  
double life undetected 
confession subsequently told mate, 
she (nor eldest daughter) 
riled, none to pleased, nonplussed

the latter (now living/working of late 
San Francisco, California), 
thus distance doth abate 
plus elapsed time buffer zone   
lessens lesson learned never to copulate 
(best if done early at any rate) 

still loathes (at least smolders) 
apt appellation liaison found papa 
caught with figurative pants down lil mandate 
formerly loosed upon Venus to excavate 
as no fallacy warm prickly didst deflate 
no stranger as expletive ingrate  

attests no more Casanova trait 
deservedly called him regarding 
extramarital tete a tete 
apology made forgiveness accepted, 
thou accept culpability I narrate 
wife high infidelity transgression, 

mine inferiority complex 
sex seeded to emasculate 
all throughout boyhood, 
adolescence, young manhood,  
veritable entire lifetime spate 
whereby fourscore and seven years ago 

minus seventeen orbitz hied dedicate 
mastermind pursuit didst facilitate 
matt's scott's getgo automatically 
begat self worthlessness 
dismal social withdrawal didst accentuate 
courtesy threatening taunts, 
name calling, bullying as master bait 

helped discredit any shred and underrate 
me yet, now vestigial self confidence
helps me to reevaluate 
within calmer metaphorical seas 
how to steer this wallowing,
lumbering, aging... frigate 
plus a brief plug for Colgate, 

nonetheless choppers rotted 
legacy courtesy dental quandary... 
subsequently oral crisis did abate 
quick lemme abbreviate 
courtesy periodontal disease 
dentures fitted hence concludes
tracked train of thought I freight.