A Fan

You have a Hollywood love

She said.

Then she explained that

She needed an

Everyday love.

The kind that hammers nails

Turns screws

Takes kids to soccer practice

And makes sure the oil’s changed

In the mini van.

Your love is

Big screen.
Bogart and Bacall

She said

And I need

Dick and Jane.

It never occurred to me

That one excluded the other.

Of all the turn downs

I’d ever received

Her's was the most creative.

But I must admit…

Until she said that

I’d never watched a Bogart movie.

Now I’m a fan.