by Kevin T. McEneaney
replaced by tv dating game shows
food recipes replaced intimacy
alliteration and assonance abandoned as artificial affectation
it was deemed sentimental when compared to pornography
romance was no longer thought possible
computers didn’t know how to write it
it often contained grammar
it implied that chance had a chance
paranoia was thought politically correct
it relied on metaphors
no one knew what lyricism was supposed to do
