By Todd VanDerWerff
Submitted by Misti
Date: 2002 Jul 15
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Dana

Whatever love I have for you
is so rational that
I want there to be a car chase
or a wacky misunderstanding
or something
like where you turn out to be
       my long lost cousin
because the fact that everything
is going so gosh-darned flippin' expletive-deleted perfectly
just drives me crazy.
We seem dictated by the sitcom gods.

And yet there is a passion
in the way you grab my arm
or the way you wave good-bye to me as you drift away
that makes me want to wait around
to see what's there.