LAMENTATION
D’UNE SOLITAIRE VALENTINE
OU
LAMENTATATTION
OF A SOLITARY VALENTINE
I'll
be my valentine this year,
enamored
of self-adoring grief,
resolved
to imminent releif,
yes,
I'll play boyfriend and beau,
kiss
subtle passes into my ear,
craft
imtimacies only I could know,
wear
each handsome detail as a smile,
whilst
entertaining o'er wine,
I'll
be my own valentine,
receiving
roses I have grown,
for
valentines who’ve bled alone,
having
solitude refined,
to a
vacant-heartiness defined,
by
the patient-yearning of a soul,
courting
its ego in the patent-gleam,
of a
mirror-kissed absence-stream,
spilling
into a consciousness so very near,
to
a kind-of happy place I couldn’t fear,
if
only because any love there could have
no thief,
as I’d
be my valentine this year…
FIN
BIGDADDY
BLUES