valentine's day
was actually invented
so that we could put good use
to our leftover New Year's booze
after we've all been dumped
and destroyed
and that fall term boy didn't work out
the fourteenth of february exists
as a mockery to those of us
who can't hold their men
or women
and can't hold their tongues
and choose not to hold their liquor
in a blatant attempt
to drown our sorrows
in the bottles that will surround us
on a sad evening turned happy,
a bunch of girls
cuddling
sobbing
vomiting
and what a greeting card
that would make