Flashback: December 28, 1998

it is another day with
a wrong script have
i given in to
a wrong syntactic tactic:
a deliciously self-conscious
parodic exercise
in theoretical, discursive
meta-language with all its
shallowness.
otherwise
i would have said
`i love you madly'
if no-one ever said it
if no-one ever said that it was said
if no-one ever said that it was said was said
ad infinitum...
and all i needed was someone
who would smile devilishly
when i said
`i love you madly'
realizing it was said
and even the fact that
it was said was said
yet would smile even more
to let me know she knew
that it was said
and even the fact that
it was said was said
and would quote another line
from these cheesy romance novels
to keep the ball rolling...