Amulet Two (poem)
Amulet Two
Corin’s parents, in the satellite radio boom
Had been a pair of patterers playing the roles
of that shopping couple at the home improvement store
On the strength of which they’d been given their live show…
Times alter fates.
No call to say busted down, but relegated
to a podcast now
we don’t see many duos in modern comedy acts
but for the musical Amulet the parts were cast
Corin, lukewarm love of Persephone,
whose name causes his mother to remark
sardonically…
His date, her mind on settling, rather than take risks
With that peculiarity her family is cursed by…it…
She has pocketed. If all had gone well,
she would have flushed it down the toilet
and proposed to Corin herself
But his parents throughout the dinner bicker
as though rehearsing a crass routine
And talk over their son’s half-uttered efforts
leaving him red in the face and meek
Persephone rises to her feet
“I wish you people…!”
What thought is in her heart?
The amulet thinks it knows, and hearing a word of command
As with a Google search, fills the rest in
Amulet Two
Amulet
Years Ago
(2021, Stephanie Foster)