A Half-wit's Sonnet for February Fourteenth
A Half-wit's Sonnet for February Fourteenth
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Oh, valentine, when did you turn a lace
bedraggled heart, a paper sentiment
of simpered verse? A dollar fifty-nine
will buy your empty Hallmark couplets set
in tawdry hearts of cardboard chocolate reds
and dime-store lipstick pinks. What fool would toss
such bottles on the breakers of romance?
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