How come all the best things are so subtle?
\nCreme Brulee and a gas-station Moon-pie
\nare both mostly sugar.
\nSeduction works best when it’s so slow and tender
\nyou don’t know it’s happening –
\nthough perhaps nothing good comes of that.
\nBetter to declare your courtship intentions in court,
\nusing a loud herald.
\nRun Starbucks through a gas chromatography spectrophotometer
\nand it lights up the same numbers as Stumptown.
\nMeasure her breasts with a micrometer
\nand you will come up with no meaningful marks
\nwith regards to beauty.
\nWe think subtle means little and slight and careful,
\nbarely pushing.
\nBut it must be pushing in a thousand places,
\ntipping the scales with a crushing weight.
\nWhen you look to see what made the difference,
\nall you see is a couple of ants sauntering away.
\nSo small, but they just finished carrying away your entire picnic
\nwhile you call the cops to report a robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How come all the best things are so subtle? Creme Brulee and a gas-station Moon-pie are both mostly sugar. Seduction works best when it’s so slow and tender you don’t know it’s happening – though perhaps nothing good comes of that. Better to declare your courtship intentions in court, using a loud herald. Run Starbucks … <\/p>\n