middenHeap28 Jan 2004

It would much too much of a puzzle without the headnote -- but perhaps you could have a flashback bit between the first and second stanza where you show her doing the ritual?

I don't ordinarily care much for that gimmick myself, but the poem relying on a headnote is also not the best. No need to say it was a ritual, just show her touching metal parts of your car and saying "Great sex" and then perhaps telling you the next day whether it worked.