copyright 2000 Jim Chevallier

DEVOTION

	After your dad tried to have me arrested on our first date, and your ex-
boy friend skipped karate practice to tell me to keep away from you, and your 
girlfriend spread rumors that I'd hired a hypnotist to get you to go out with me, 
and after that graffiti that said my boyfriend would be jealous if I kept seeing 
you, and after that cartoon in the school paper showing you in the clutches of a 
giant jellyfish that looked a lot like me, not to mention the car troubles I've had 
since we started dating, and the funny taste my food had just before I got sick, 
and those fire ants I found in my sheets, and the letters I've been getting with 
cut-out words and the e-mail that wiped out my hard drive after showing me 
your picture with a big red circle with a bar across it - Well, of COURSE, I still 
want to see you.
	Why would you ever think otherwise?