Doggerel

If I have one chance 

to write to you like Chance 

the Rapper or Mac Miller 

then I wish I had a tiny desk 

with a band behind me 

decked out, low tech, 

like the Delfonics 

or a gospel choir 

singing higher, higher 

as I say these lines for you, 

with you, like a bus full of us 

smiling when I tell you 

that I love you 

like an orange cat

saying meow this 

and meow that, my paw 

moving like the law 

against the base 

of a Ming Dynasty vase 

and tell me what you think, 

could this, might this

just be the real thing?