If You Can't Cut It Whole, It Shouldn't Count

Who needs symmetry?

She tells me hearts are symmetrical.
The only symmetrical hearts that I have ever seen,
were the ones made by folding the paper
and cutting only one half of the shape out.

Cheating.

And the ones that were made for the stores,
manufactured,
measured, not real.
If symmetry is to be applied here,
I do not want it.

And what of Rod Stewart's face?
Rod Stewart's face,
is not symmetrical.

He is inticing me with one side of his smile,
one side of his eyelid shut less,
and he is not symmetrical.

If Rod won't have it, then neither will I.

I remember symmetry. Symmetry is colours
on one half of the paper only
and folding it over to share your creation.
That is symmetry if you get it right,
but if you're like me

you'll probably stick your finger in one side
before the paint is dry.