Sunday, April 29, 2012

32. Sebastien Chabal


I can't guarantee that I'll be able to keep this up, but it'd be cool if I could crank out a sonnet a day for y'all.





"You look just like Sebastien Chabal!"
A number of wise folk to me have cried.
Perhaps I'm not as broad, nor quite as tall
But other likenesses can't be denied.

I'm serious: we could be long-lost twins!
Such is our similarity of face--
Our flowing locks, our beards, our roguish grins--
when people see me they do double takes.

But “No,” I say, “I'm not the rugby star.”
Though I can understand their great confusion.
We look the same, I tell you, near and far,
right down to our brow ridges' large protrusion.

I wonder if he's got his tale down pat
to clear things up when people think he's Nat.


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