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DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL

21st Century Valentines


She Sony VAIO laptop emailed she wanted to go out with me
I'm glad I had an iPhone in my pocket
She later Chocolate texted pik me ^ @ 8
I drove up to her condo apartment above Starbucks
in my Subaru Impreza
With Coastal cats eye contacts, she stared passionately
through dinner at Claim Jumper
I was pleased I previously stroked on Axe
She reached to touch my hand with an Amalech
white heart on each fake red nail
Good thing I remembered earlier to pump some
Equaline sanitizer into my palm
She moved closer in an attempt to kiss me
with Maybelline HydraStay Lipstick
I took off my Crest Whitestrip and quickly popped in
an Icebreaker cube
When she gave me a peek at her Victoria's Secret thong
I broke out a Durex vibrating rings condom
Afterwards she ingested her Plan B morning-after pill
then said she couldn't sleep
So I sweetly slipped her a sample packet of Ambien
Twenty minutes later I quietly stepped away in my Uggs
Got back in my car and roared into the day's carbon-fueled haze

DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL, listed on Poets & Writers, is the founder of POETRYpeople youth writing workshops, publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Thursday Evening Critique workshops, and host of Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena, California. He is the recipient of an Honorable Mention in The League Of Laboring Poets March 2007 contest, the National Writers Association's Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society's Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective's Poetry In The Windows Prize. His poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Vox Jo! urnal, Behold The Pirate Pig, Hudson View Poetry Digest, Mudpuppy, Looking Out Of Pasadena, Prism Review and now, a video on YouTube! (Go to Poetry.LA!!)
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