If Walt Whitman were a Greeting Card Writer by Anon
O Valentine! My Valentine!
Your face is everywhere;
I see it in the dead leaves;
I see it in the toadstools in the wood;
I see it in the lake sum and the swamp moss;
But I do not see it in the peat bogs;
O Valentine!
You are the bullfrog croaking and the jackal
howling and the buzzard screaming,
And occasionally the gopher thinking;
My heart is nature's toothpaste tube, and
you are the force eternal that squeezes
out the final, itsy-bitsy sweetness;
O me!
O you!
O me! O you!
O you! O Me!
O us!
O Valentine!
While I'm in a silly mood:
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
Anonymous
"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."
Hoosier Farmer
"Falling in love is so hard on the knees."
Aerosmith
Oh thank you for the smiles!
ReplyDeleteO Valentine!: I recall this from Mad Magazine, ca. 1968. I set it to memory but 47 years is a long time.
ReplyDeleteO Valentine!: I recall this from Mad Magazine, ca. 1968. I set it to memory but 47 years is a long time.
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