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Sonnet L'Abbé (1973-)

Body Shop


              1Your body’s got the wrong features?
              2Oh, wainh, wainh!

              3Its finish isn’t status tint?
              4You wanted
              5the other coupling link?

              6I don’t see a problem.
              7Gets you from A to B.
              8Has all the usual sensory
              9inputs and outputs.
            10And size is no indicator
            11of performance.

            12Why don’t you just take it
            13for a spin?
            14Once you get used to
            15how it drives, you’ll forget
            16you ever cared about
            17the bells and whistle.

            18And if you think your ride
            19has anything to do
            20with how easily you score,
            21well –

            22Who ordered it, then?
            23Doesn’t matter.
            24You can’t return it here.

Notes

5] coupling link: an open or split connector of two objects (originally a phrase in engineering: see OED, "coupling", 1874 citation).

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Copyright © Sonnet L'Abbé 2006. Not to be republished without permission of the poet.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Killarnoe
First publication date: 16 February 2006
Publication date note: Forthcoming
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2006
Recent editing: 1:2006/2/16*1:2006/2/16

Form note: Occasional off-rhyming

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