Jennifer DePaolo's birthday is tomorrow.

Heeey, I would like to contradict my previous whiny rhetorical questions about poetic forms in light of this "Lonely Hearts" poem, which rightly has a pattern to it. The repetition of "Can someone make my simple wish come true?" emphasizes the universality of the problem of loneliness. "Do you live in North London? Is it you?" has a similar logic in being repeated. All of the lonely hearts want somebody to love. They're looking for quite different things, but their general purpose is the same.

I don't know exactly why they're all looking for somebody in North London, really, though. I suppose if it's in the "Personals" ads in a newspaper, they would all be from roughly the same area, and thus we must conclude that they are all from London. Famous poets sure do like London a lot. What's up with that?



PS--I think that author lady cheated on the spelling of her name. She's takin' the easy way out.