Love Letters — Angela Brett's poetry show on JoCo Cruise 2021
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2021-04-25

Another thing about learning another language is that even if the language uses the same alphabet, they don’t name the letters the same way. You feel like a bit of an idiot when you’re an adult who speaks the language fluently, but have to pause to try to spell something out, because you don’t know what the letters are called. So this is a love poem, but it’s also a mnemonic for the alphabet in English — the end of each line sounds like the name of a letter of the alphabet, in order. All you have to do is memorise this poem and you’ll remember the alphabet in English. This poem is called Love Letters, and it can be found on my album at https://angelastic.bandcamp.com/track/love-letters and on YouTube at https://youtu.be/8hmRIs9rSvk (or live, with Barbie dolls, at https://youtu.be/jqNMq9VnNQ0) The stick figures from the 'FiguresByThor' OmniGraffle stencil.

The words:

A mental syntonicity one day 
A gentle hint of what we two could be 
lit just enough my life so I could see 
that trust in love just might bring rhapsody, 
exuberant duet of you and me, 
a music fit to agonise the deaf. 
By moonlight we could glimpse our apogee 
Drew closer to alleviate the ache. 
I saw my glow reflected in your eye, 
I saw your soul like flesh through négligée, 
enigma moulding treasure from okay. 
I leaned a little nearer till I fell 
in love, and whispered brazenly ‘je t’aime.’ 
L’amour, the kissing cousin of la haine 
A congress fit for hedonists, but oh! 
A princess in our bed, I feel the pea 
A tiny irritation right on cue 
A grating indication that we are 
Two spirits passing through the first caress 
and driven past into infinity. 
I’m looking straight ahead and not at you, 
We’ll separate in steps, but c’est la vie. 
Although no other man can double you, 
although no lover can replace this ex, 
We’re done, and if today you wonder why, 
remember every A will lead to Z.

The full show is at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0gVK9y3KGCNuwUADufNqmNk