The Timid Lothario’s Poetry Book

Previously by Liz Anderson: The Timid Anarchist’s Poetry Book

Come with me, my darling!

I shall take you to places you’ve never been!

You will be

SO

VERY

ANXIOUS

 

Something tells me

He may not be ready

For casual dating

Tamara

His orientation is listed as

“The River What Took My Son”

 

Every joyful person is a

personal

offense

to

me!

 

Interests:

Obfuscation

Paradigm shifting

Ponderous arguments

Travel! 😀 😀 😀

 

New Message!

Ah!

Sent at 1AM

Ah?

From “JohnGalt196”

Ah.

“Have you ever worn heels and stomped on –”

AHHHHH

 

I’m looking for a “Robin Hood” type

You know

Hates monarchy

Lives in a forest

Is literally a fox

You know

That type

 

I delight in affairs hosted by your friends,

My Dear Angelo!

This will be a night we shall never forget!

Unrelated —

What is the appropriate attire for

An evening of

Hiding in the bathroom

For an hour and a

Half?

 

How I long to feel the warmth of thy embrace

Enmeshed with mine!

Yea, but hold! Let us extinguish this candle first

For verily

The human body is terrifying

And sex is,

At best,

Very gross

 

A big fat cat upon the hill

I will grab it for you

That is how much I love you

Don’t think about it too much

I’m gonna do it

Stop asking questions

I’m gonna do it

Because I love you

I’m gonna steal that cat

I’m gonna do it

I’m gonna

 

 

Looks like someone

Hitched a ride on the

Succu-Bus

Honk Honk!

 

Welcome to the beer garden.

What do we grow here?

Much fauna, bearing fruits of:

Bottom-heavy men

Problematic opinions

Probably nachos

 

Don’t mistake me!

I quite enjoy being invited to your

Board

Game

Nights

It is good that we can admit to ourselves

At the top

That we are poor at

Conversation

 

If you were to measure my love life in

Inappropriate literary comparisons

Call me Giles Corey

‘Cause I am crushing it

 

I, like the British, enjoy describing pleasant things with

Unpleasant adjectives

Such as

Terribly fun

Wickedly smart

And

Lovecraftianly horny

 

Happy Christmas Party,

My dear office staff!

In case my open-backed set of onesie pajamas was not a proper indication

I am indeed

Single

And Ready

To Jingle

Liz Anderson is a Chicago-based writer, performer, and comedian. She is currently the writer and director of “The One-Woman No-Show,” originally produced at The Annoyance Theater and Bar, and performs regularly with Chicago Improv Productions and ComedySportz Chicago. She is also a 6AM DJ on Saturday mornings with on CHIRP Radio (107.1 WCHI), so if you’re up early enough to catch her show, she’s already sorry.


20 Comments

  1. builtahouse +51

    brb, finding some way to incorporate “single and ready to jingle” into a bio.

    <3 all of this. ALL OF IT.

  2. lemonack +35

    “Lovecraftianly horny” just became my new go-to phrase for that state after the second absinthe.

  3. britomartian +46

    Looks like someone

    Hitched a ride on the

    Succu-Bus

    Honk Honk!

    Cackling. Thanks for my new go-to pick-up line, which has abruptly supplanted my long-time favourite “If I were an enzyme I’d be DNA helicase, so I could UNZIP YO GENES” (heyyy-o)

    1. Thujaplicata +5

      I have a shirt from the biology club at my undergrad that says “unzip your genes and replicate” on the back. I still love that shirt.

  4. onehundredthjen +14

    The big fat cat thing would totally work on me, and I would not ask many questions at all.

    I love all of this!

  5. friendofdaja +24

    Inappropriate literary (well, more historical) comparison pickup lines for life.

    “Are you Henry VIII? ‘Cause I lose my head around you!”

  6. queenofbithynia +37

    Because I love you

    I’m gonna steal that cat

    I’m gonna do it

    I’m gonna

    oh wow you wrote the fourth poem I ever liked in my life. this is a pretty big deal

  7. urspostrophe +29

    The human body is terrifying

    And sex is,

    At best,

    Very gross

    ……….yep yep this is extremely true

  8. zachariahary +17

    Me at my desk just now: “Haaaaaah! Cuz they crushed him! With rocks! Til he died!”
    Anyways, this whole thing was delightful and I loved all of it.

  9. goonerkate +12

    This is the best! I just got on online dating (mostly so my mom thinks I’m trying not to be a spinster), so this makes me incredibly happy. And now I may have to steal the Robin Hood bit.

  10. Zelenka +2

    I love all of this so so so so much. It is undeniably brilliant. Can’t pick out a favorite, but if I did, it would be a tie between succu-bus and Lovecraftianly horny.