"Broken Feather Bad Boyfriend Blues" by Marilyn Chin
There are two matches that are coming to mind with this poem. The less obvious is "champagne problems." There are two lines in the poem that definitely ring some bells - "The Swift Modest Proposal one knee on the ground / The London Fog erased us you vanished without a sound." And they sound an awful lot like, "I never was ready so I watch you go / Sometimes you just don't know the answer / Til someone's on their knees and asks you."
However, it's too hard for me not to choose "The Albatross" when albatross appears three times in the poem. Both the poem and the song end with a strong image of the narrator - in the poem, "I am the immortal albatross I am the one," and in the song, "She's the albatross / She is here to destroy you."
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