[1944–current, American]
I’m really very fond of you,
he said.
I don’t like fond.
It sounds like something
you would tell a dog.
Give me love,
or nothing.
Throw your fond in a pond,
I said.
But what I felt for him
was also warm, frisky,
moist-mouthed,
eager,
and could swim away
if forced to do so.
Source: Walker, A 1986, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, Mariner Books.
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