Valentine's Day my arse!
O but I loathe it beyond human belief!
A load of stupid lovesick fools
Buying ugly cards to send each other
With sloppy sentimental lovey-dovey doggerel;

Those "hot" dinner dates (Covid permitting):
Where's the love in being ripped off in third-rate restaurants
With fourth-rate food at extra high prices?
God in Heaven, but it makes me sick!
How fortunate is the man with no one to love
And with no one who pretends to love him.

I shall spend the fourteenth of February
Sitting watching a pornographic DVD from
My extensive video collection
And guzzling a bottle or two of expensive wine
With a casual pick-up
(with a bit of luck).