Everything's Taken (For Jeff)

Everything’s Taken

All the stories

All the pictures fit for postcards

All the songs and all the riffs

All the samples and the lyrics

All the poetry, rhymes, and meters

All the plots and all the plot points,

All the plays and screenplays, even,

Every musical, every movie:

All taken.

Even

I love you more than banana cream pie

And

I’ll love you till starlings sing the blues.

Yet---

You’re here, with me, and still

I love you.

You’re taken, too.

And so am I.