The High-End Godsend Birthday Girlfriend
Content Warning: This newsletter contains a brief love poem
I write poems from time to time for specific occasions, a practice I started when I was Davis poet laureate, back when I would write poems for city council meetings and for rallies and memorials. I had written one book of poetry about Yolo County veterans, and thus was asked to read poems from the book at Memorial Day and Veterans Day ceremonies at the Davis Cemetery. I read one such poem, titled “The Bullet Tree,” to begin Stories on Stage Davis this past Saturday (Veterans Day) at 7:30 at the Pence Gallery.
Most of the poems I write for people or for occasions are for my wife Kate, and I often return to such compositions when I am starting a Pub Quiz newsletter on a Wednesday afternoon, but with many meetings and obligations between newsletter time and the time I take the stage. Today, for instance, I will be delivering one family member to the doctor and another to the dentist and a third to a fourth family member (we don’t all live in the same house anymore), all between now and when I start my KDVS radio show at 5.
So happy belated birthday (November 4) to my wife Kate. For her “birthday week” (which is ongoing), I wrote her two poems and let her choose which one to post on Facebook. The second one, this one, was posted on Instagram:
The Two of Cups
You entice like a riddle
Your legs never end
You prefer banjo to fiddle
I’m in love with my friend
The artist at the griddle
Has her boy’s plays to attend
You call our dog “Liddle”
You’re my workweek’s weekend
You make my heart giggle
Your eyes, they transcend
We’ve just now reached the middle
You are the poem that I’ve penned
My high-end godsend birthday girlfriend
I’d marry you again and again and again
It’s rare that I wrote poems where the only punctuation marks are quotation marks, and this time even those might be superfluous. Happy birthday, Kate!
Thanks to The Original Vincibles, Summer Brains, The Outside Agitators, Gena Harper and others who support my weekly Sudwerk Pub Quiz on Patreon. I would love to add your name or that of your team to the list of supporters. I appreciate your backing this pub quiz project of mine!
Best,
Dr. Andy
P.S. Here are three Pub Quiz questions from last week:
Film. The top-grossing film from this past weekend, Five Nights at Freddy’s, was adapted from which of the following: Another film, a novel, a TV show, or a video game?
UC Davis Youth Culture. What is the most popular location on the west side of the UC Davis campus where students watch the sun set?
Science. In the field of genetics, what P word do we use for the observable traits of an organism?