By sassy
Date: 2005 Dec 18
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[[2005.12.18.09.03.7096]]

Captain Von Trapp

The living room was alive
with the Sound of Music
last night, remastered on
ABC TV.
I was lost in it, rocketed back
to when I was ten years old
and Captain Von Trapp was the
most dashing, romantic figure
on my radar.
I wanted to be Maria
I wanted a calling,
to leave a convent for love
to race around the hills of Austria with
seven children, and maybe add a couple more.
Most of all I wanted a man who could
sing "Edelweiss" sweetly enough to break my heart.
So I asked you to try it,
this morning in the shower
and you belted it out like a Broadway star;
so i said I'd call you Captain
and you called me
the girl who will never be a nun.