People Poems · CTP-0220

Love, Stars, Happiness

Original typewriter poem by Chris the Poet

Original typewritten page for Love, Stars, Happiness by Chris the Poet

Transcription

There's a trope in cartoons where characters see stars when they've been clocked in the noggin or when they fall in love at first sight (sometimes it's little hearts or cupids flying around, but I digress). I thought this was a figurative a depiction depiction, a visual gag, but the joke was on me when you walked in the door—were you equipped with a galaxy in your pocket? Perhaps you pulled it out and from your palm, blew the stars my way like a kiss—because I'm dizzy now, bewildered by the spinning kaleidoscope of stars and happiness.