There Is Good News — by Josephine Jacobsen

a law
removing from use the monosyllable love
for a period of three years; pro-
mulgated by a poet, and un-
enforceable. But a law.

The monosyllable
(which I may no longer name)
will be unavailable to:
carbonated drinks; pimps; all ad-
vertising agencies; candidates;
graduation addresses;
haute couture; hill-billy
bands; and, under the worst penalties, all
Interested Parties.

This will deprive
children; those dying; lovers; and those
other needy. But it is hoped
that in the fourth year
someone as yet unknown
will enunciate a syllable
of force
so tall as to unite
roots and
heavenly bodies.