The Pale Autumn Moon

How can I love her?

 

Let me count the ways.

 

The heat of her glare affects me as if I were an ejected baby bat left exposed on a hot sidewalk.

 

She is much shorter than a refrigerator,

 

But more massive.

 

Her laugh is the final word of a steel door

 

Being slammed rapidly.

 

Her face is 

 

Like the pale Autumn moon,

 

Occluded by a storm cloud,

 

Wearing perpetually, hyper-vigilantly

 

The same expression,

 

A studied I-dare-you belligerence.

 

She is identifiably human.

 

How can I love her?

 

Help me find a way.

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