We should all thank Taylor Swift for taking on what poets so often vaingloriously try (and fail) to express and how she, rather than being intimidated by such endeavour, gives appropriate expression to the most motivating human sentiments and puts it all into catchy, heartfelt songs.

If I were to wear your little red square

it would be to commemorate the death

of a dear friend, and if that friend’s name

were Reddinger ‘LaRouge’ Crimsonforce.

If I were to express my best days with you

of course I’d mention the shrimp croquettes

but I’d earn my poet’s pay in images

of a hurt man trying to talk to a truck.

If I were to go back in time it would be

just before whoever wrote ‘If I Could

Turn Back Time’ for Cher, but I would still

come back with a poem much like this.

If I were to sleep all day, I’d give it all

to you and you’d get remarried, remarried

like you used to do! Like you used to chew

licorice red, mon petit squarehead.