Valentine's Day, pure commercialism?

Bellazza, this is not very subtle.

Philip Larkin - Love Again

Love again: wanking at ten past three
(Surely he's taken her home by now?),
The bedroom hot as a bakery,
The drink gone dead, without showing how
To meet tomorrow, and afterwards,
And the usual pain, like dysentery.

Someone else feeling her breasts and cunt,
Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me supposed to be ignorant,
Or find it funny, or not to care,
Even ... but why put it into words?
Isolate rather this element

That spreads through other lives like a tree
And sways them on in a sort of sense
And say why it never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.

what??? Im just giving examples of how valentines day can be inexpensive ...you know... not buying into the commercialism of it all... be original! :]

Thanks Will. That was cheery.

Thought you were just reminding Mr Donut.

An Arundel Tomb

Side by side, their faces blurred,

    The earl and countess lie in stone,
    Their proper habits vaguely shown
    As jointed armour, stiffened pleat,
    And that faint hint of the absurd -
    The little dogs under their feet.
     Such plainness of the pre-baroque
    Hardly involves the eye, until
    It meets his left-hand gauntlet, still
    Clasped empty in the other; and
    One sees, with a sharp tender shock,
    His hand withdrawn, holding her hand.
     ]They would not think to lie so long.
    Such faithfulness in effigy
    Was just a detail friends would see:
    A sculptor's sweet commissioned grace
    Thrown off in helping to prolong
    The Latin names around the base.
     They would not guess how early in
    Their supine stationary voyage
    The air would change to soundless damage,
    Turn the old tenantry away; 
    How soon succeeding eyes begin
    To look, not read.  Rigidly, they
     Persisted, linked, through lengths and         breadths
    Of time.  Snow fell, undated.  Light
    Each summer thronged the glass.  A bright
    Litter of birdcalls strewed the same
    Bone-riddled ground.  And up the paths
    The endless altered people came,
     Washing at their identity.
    Now, helpless in the hollow of
    An unarmorial age, a trough
    Of smoke in slow suspended skeins
    Above their scrap of history,
    Only an attitude remains:
     Time has transfigured them into
    Untruth.  The stone fidelity
    They hardly meant has come to be
    Their final blazon, and to prove
    Our almost-instinct almost true:
    What will survive of us is love.

       Phillip Larkin

I am getting 'non-sequitur' flashing up here ?

Is that, like, a question, or are you being, like, colonial?

Someone else feeling her breasts and cunt,

That's disgusting. I'm as much shocked as outraged. I won't be posting after the watershed anymore.

Absolutely 100% commercialism but if you stop and think about what it pretends to be and embrace that idea of Valentines day then it's prefect really innit :) Peace & Love

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And just when I thought it couldn't get any more lewd.

Talking In Bed
by Philip Larkin

Talking in bed ought to be easiest
Lying together there goes back so far
An emblem of two people being honest.

Yet more and more time passes silently.
Outside the wind's incomplete unrest
builds and disperses clouds about the sky.

And dark towns heap up on the horizon.
None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why
At this unique distance from isolation

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind
Or not untrue and not unkind.

Philip Larkin was a famous fan of porn. Unfortunately for him, he died before the industry got slick. Although, on reflection, that probably suited him..

what??? Im just giving examples of how valentines day can be inexpensive ...you know... not buying into the commercialism of it all... be original! :]

There is a irony here.

Is that, like, a question, or are you being, like, colonial?

Either.

YouTube - Happy Tree Friends - Valentine's Smoochie

Philip Larkin was a famous fan of porn. Unfortunately for him, he died before the industry got slick. Although, on reflection, that probably suited him..

he was also a fan of Thatcher. i was surprised when people were surprised, after his death, to discover that he was a pervert; it's all there in his writing. Takes one to know one I suppose.

There is a irony here.

there's also a missing 'n' you autodidact numpty

Theren is a irony here
There nis a irony here
There is na irony here
There is a ironny here
There is a irony heren

No I give up.

there's also a missing 'n' you autodidact numpty

Racist, Jew baiter, homophobic semanticist.

Theren is a irony here
There nis a irony here
There is na irony here
There is a ironny here
There is a irony heren

No I give up.

That should be 'No, I give up'.

No comma, no sense.

this thread is funny

Racist, Jew baiter, homophobic semanticist.

Ok, since you ask so nicely, you can cum in my mouth then.

Ok, since you ask so nicely, you can cum in my mouth then.

That's the money shot that is.

In hindsight, that's not the most appropriate image for the 'look of shock' theme I was going for then.

It actually appears he's gearing up for said offer...