I'd Love A Woman Who Reads

I’d love a woman who reads

Books with imponderable titles

And as thick as a dictionary

So she can challenge me with words

Such as kerfuffle

I wouldn’t wonder what to gift her

And she wouldn’t wonder what to give me

Everywhere we go people say

‘that’s the book warm couple’

She would write, that’s for sure

Ain’t no woman who reads and doesn’t write

She will write pages and pages

Of her feelings when I piss her off

When we argue she is rational

Yet sublimely feminine

Because I can’t stand irrational people

 Better if she quotes her favourite author

When we break up, we gift each our journals

Full of indelible anecdotes

And then we fall in love again

Because we’ll be reading stories were characters