Kanalia . Poem by I.J. Benjamin

I was with a girl named Kanalia
with good curves, she explained that it's Hawaiian
and that it means
beauty within a shining star
and she smiled
and i looked at her and
looked at her some more,
i said so what?

she looked shocked,
offended even, I said, my name is Ben, i hate my name
and do you ever think
that the sea and the mountains are ugly and boring?

she looked surprised and laughed, of course not
they're beauuuuutiful, she said
and then she drawled on with her white teeth some more about her
name and she said
she liked mine.

Oh well, you can't have everything.

Later, we went home and had sex, and in the morning,
like all stars,
she was gone.