The Importance of Being Earnest

Lay no flowers
For Algernon
Poet man or mouse
The measure of wisdom
Is not
Intelligence
She had that in spades
Though she had never used one
Before he was Jack
She loved him as Johnny
His identity was no ruse
And I am left
A de facto member of Al-Anon
With the unredeemed legacy
Of sarcasm irony and ridicule
Her weapons of choice
When
In an earnest effort
To assail her pain
She had not yet used
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