FATHER'S got the queerest Valentine! It's the picture of a little girl With her hair cut straight across her face, Plastered down without a wave or curl. If you'd see her stockings you would laugh, For they're made with rings like barber's poles, And she wears the oddest little frock, With no neck or sleeves but only @3holes.@1 And I said, "Who is this little girl? I won't have her for @3my@1 Valentine." Father laughed and said, "That's just as well— Long ago she promised to be mine. "Once I sent that child a sugar heart, Saying, 'If you love me tell me so,' And she ate it all—why, little son, That was mother, thirty years ago!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ESSAY ON STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH EVENING IN A SUGAR ORCHARD by ROBERT FROST HOW THEY GO ON by JAMES GALVIN MY BOY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOSEPH DIXON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE BEAST OF BURDEN by MARIANNE MOORE |