[Neil]

Subject: Valentine's Day is coming...........
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> > These are entries to a Washington Post poetry competition, asking for a
> > rhyme with the MOST romantic first line, but the LEAST romantic
> > second line. The submissions are brutal!
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> > Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss
> > But I only slept with you,
> > because I was pissed.
> > ****************************
> > I thought that I could love no other
> > Until, that is, I met your brother.
> > ****************************
> > Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
> > But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty
> > and so is your head.
> > *****************************
> > Of loving beauty you float with grace
> > If only you could hide your face.
> > ****************************
> > Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
> > This describes everything you are not.
> > ****************************
> > I want to feel your sweet embrace
> > But don't take that paper bag off of your face.
> > ****************************
> > I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
> > Damn, I'm good at telling lies!
> > ****************************
> > My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
> > Marrying you screwed up my life.
> > ****************************
> > I see your face when I am dreaming.
> > That's why I always wake up screaming.
> > ****************************
> > My love, you take my breath away.
> > What have you stepped in to smell this way
> > ****************************
> > My feelings for you no words can tell,
> > Except for maybe "go to hell."
> > ****************************
> > What inspired this amorous rhyme?
> > Two parts vodka, one part lime.
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