Advice To Lovers (A Poem by Frank O’Connor)

The way to get on with a girl

Is to drift like a man in mist,

Happy enough to be caught,

Happy to be dismissed.

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Glad to be out of her way,

Glad to rejoin her in bed,

Equally grieved or gay

To learn that she’s living or dead.

{Image by Craig Allen, sourced via Flickr Creative Commons.}