Sally Van Doren
USA
Private Practice
My clients are syllables.
I charge them by the consonant.
When there’s an ellipsis
I slip them a cheat sheet
and we do deep breathing
until they regain their confidence.
I do pro-bono work
with aspirants. Once I lost
a villanelle to asphyxiation,
but the elegies rallied around
to help me get over it. I’m
having a long term affair
with a sonnet, but it’s strictly
confidential. I could be barred
if anyone found out. (I’ve only
told a limerick or two.) I like
to treat my haikus over sushi
and my ballads with a French
Bordeaux. I work mostly by
referral. With 26 letters out there
I had to add a secretary and a
receptionist just to keep up.
Can’t you hear their keyboards?
Tap tap tap, tap tap tap!
(First appeared
in december: 26.1)
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