the other side in poetry

Any love poem
no matter how deep or how sad
becomes instantly funny
if you imagine it being delivered to a pillow
he sleeps with in the shape of an anime babe.

I’ve got nothing against anime
I enjoy some anime
Ranma 1/2, Project A-Ko, Cowboy Bebop
there is some quality anime out there
I don’t know however if there are any
quality body pillows in the shape of an anime babe.
It’s possible?
Anything’s possible, this is the 90s after all but
pick any love poem you can think of and
if the writer is sending it out to
a pillow in the shape of an anime babe?
Instantly funny.

But soft, what light through cotton backfill breaks?
Tis the east and my wifeu is the sun!

I’m just saying here
I’m just saying here
imagine him in his bed with his anime babe pillow
maybe a thirty-dollar mall katana hung proudly on the wall
just some lovestruck poet and
his anime babe pillow

It gets me every time.