Love comes in all shapes

It may be because we stand upon the threshold of spring, but I've been thinking about this season and it's trademarked feelings of love. But not everyone is fated to fall in love with that one person whom we were destined to be with.

Many will become ensnared in that most cliched of theatrical devices: the love triangle. You all know what this is. Two guys/girls/one of each vie for the heart of the same man/woman. But why is there only a triangle, surely there has to be more than one complicated relationship type out there.

How about a love square? Two people going after two different people, but are romantically linked to one or both of the other two people as well. Or a pentagon, hexagon, septagon, or octagon? Nonagon is where things really start to get kinky.

There's the love star of David, where two completely independent love triangles find themsleves at the same place and time.

If there are enough people involved and they are all at radically different points in their lives, does the shape become three dimensional, like a cube or a pyramid. If you want to see some really fucked up shit, look for a love icosahedron.

Perhaps there's even a love circle, where there are no definite points, only a continuum of infinitely connectable locations. This is the one that the sluts like.

And while we're going with this geometry metaphor, what about your average, run o' the mill couple? They are simply a line segment. Two tiny points with a single connection between them. Not very exciting is it? It's not a shape. It's barely even two dimensional. Who wants that?

And then there are the dots. The single people who have no one with which to draw a line. The dots like to collect and be themselves, without really caring about the other shapes. And when someone finally does come along and connect all the dots, it makes a pretty little picture that's a hell of a lot better than some pissant triangle or line, that's for damn sure. But dots aren't technically shapes, so they have no business being mentioned.

Of couse, I'm a romantic.