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Secret lover - that is your cosmic fate

Secret lover - that is your cosmic fate,
Persistent algorithm of your life:
Of the lesbian activist of late;
Of the skanky ho adulterous wife
(All's fair for Love and War but not for Trade);
And of the poet in her persistent
Imagination. But I was not made
To declare aught at a cop's insistent
Command, I flaunted my naughty secret
In fourteen-lined rhymes, each and every one
A declaration of love sans regret,
And can't by friends' opinion be undone.
You can blame yourself for this sonnet shit -
You keep reading and I'll keep writing it.