Love Story Satire

 Listen to the musical score, specifically, the piano piece of the 1979 hit movie, Love Story with Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw as a young formidable couple in pursuit of a relationship and at odds with class of society — he, from a wealthy family that has a long line of Barretts —competitive men of impressive accolades that has at least the same high expectations on their off-springs.  But she has a poor background and a loving relationship with her father, whom Oliver (played by Ryan O'Neal) cannot fathom because of his estranged relationship with his.  Is Oliver dating Jenny only to get back at his father?  Because dating a girl from a lower-class background would really irk him.  Whatever his motives, theirs endure . . . until it ends from a natural cause.  The piano theme from the movie encompasses sixteenth notes and a wide range of other notes; however, I had been discontent by the words of the music sung by Andy Williams.  Before I write my own words to the music of Love Story, I wrote a satire of Oliver's "love" for Jenny or how some men "love" their women.  Better rephrase it — how some men and their ego love women.  The satire is created from a line of Erich Segal's Love Story where he writes, I have to come first.  I repeat this line throughout the poem.

Love Story, Satire

I had to come first,

Like a roadhog, at the burgeoning,

I had to put myself at first meeting,

My conceit puffed, huffed for thirst,

Tis my airs that grows like cyst, 

 

Her dreams lessen to mine,

My wants bulk large, sublime,

Her life bypassed and she, ostracized,

For my wants crow, bridle, aggrandized,

While hers lies low ebb tide,

I had to come first,

 

 

Her coming sketch of tomorrow slit,

Her map sliced to pieces and I do the cutting,

My first move, to cut the edges, expunging,

Because only I can mount and lift,

Simulacrum of a soaring egotist,

I had to come first,

 

 

But as I lie in her final throes of life,

As I rue over with woe and sigh,

The end sprung from the cut and thrust so I derived,

All because of the game that I had won, while hers collapsed,

Above all, exalted, I welcomed, dressed to the nines,

I had to come first.