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# Hallmark Holiday VII
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- Published: 2024-03-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Of cert not of the consequence thereof. You won't hear that one from the mouth of preachers, when talking about marriage, about love, or risk a startled snicker from the bleachers. Since love is an invention of the mi...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Of cert not of the consequence thereof.  
You won't hear that one from the mouth of preachers,  
when talking about marriage, about love,  
or risk a startled snicker from the bleachers.  
Since love is an invention of the mind,  
a pirouetting egret serves its purpose,  
so long as he's the procreating kind,  
but so does any bird, so why the circus?  
Did Nature have a different kind of goal  
than merely the survival of the fittest?  
A salmon swims upstream to chase his shoal,  
but surely of a mind to prove the neatest,  
the bestest, fastest salmon he can be.  
Still hopes to find his soulmate in the sea.