Lonely Hearts

Again, this poem also expresses the villanelle pattern.  It is broken up into tercets and ends with a quatrain.  The villanelle structure was a good fit because ads are short excerpts just like the tercets in the poem.  I liked this poem mainly because I could understand it but also because of the structure.  Each of the tercets represent an ad in the Personals section of the newspaper where some people look for companionship.  The first tercet describes a male who's searching for a female who likes to travel.  Second, the next tercet references someone who wants anther person who enjoys "music, Shakespeare, and the sun."  Third, the following tercet involves a person who wants an artsy and young bisexual woman.  Fourth, the next tercet describes a Jewish lady with a son who's looking for a "successful, straight, and solvent" person.  Lastly, the fifth tercet describes a librarian who needs a "slim non-smoker" who's under 21.  All of these ads want something different.