sonnet

The infatuated narrator toys with presenting his love-object with a copy of Shakespeare’s sonnets and dreams of bringing him over to London.

It even has a name: The Second Immortal Dinner, in which Blundy for the first time read his corona, a poem composed as a sequence of sonnets, that had been lost long ago.

That rude clatter is his equivalent of a sonnet.

No one is writing social media sonnets about eating a yellow squash over the kitchen sink while wearing their ex’s oversized T-shirt, still scented with a perfume they stopped wearing last fall.

He consumed everything from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill to Shakespearean sonnets.