"Executive in search of something new--
Perhaps bisexual woman, arty, young.
Do you live in North London? Is it you?"
This poem has a distinct form of a stanza beginning with the desired qualities in a mate of the speaker followed by a refrain of questions. However, the irony in this poem is that the speaker asks "Can someone make my simple wish come true?" but his wish is really not simple at all. The entire poem is dedicated to the specific qualities that his potential mate must possess. Most of them are really not very common at all, either. The fact that the only place he is searching is North London is inhibiting as well. He doesn't even have a wide range of women that could meet this long list of criteria. Instead though, maybe each stanza represents a different kind of person who might be searching for love. In the first stanza, the person seeks a mate who is adventurous. In the second, he seeks a very soulful and compassionate woman. The third seeks a young and wild woman. The fourth on the other hand seeks the opposite, a Jewish successful woman with a son, implying that she is older and rich. The person referred to in the fifth stanza is searching for someone to complement their astrological sign and who is not a big risk-taker. The sixth stanza is just a general end to any of these ads. Maybe rather than satirizing those who don't find love because they are so demanding, it is pitying those who can't find love and don't know why.
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