Without mentioning a certain holiday*, three things I like
1. The fact this crazy ad for roses exists, runs in our paper and causes two people to have a debate like this one. Link. (I vote neighbor.)
2. 2010's Valentines for Journalists. 2009's Valentines for Journalists. (My favorite: "I love you like a reporter loves cake." I love you, cake.)
3. The startling end of Robert Pinsky's "crazy love" poetry round-up.
"Her Triumph"
William Butler YeatsI did the dragon's will until you came
Because I had fancied love a casual
Improvisation, or a settled game
That followed if I let the kerchief fall:
Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings
And heavenly music if they gave it wit;
And then you stood among the dragon"‘rings.
I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it
And broke the chain and set my ankles free,
Saint George or else a pagan Perseus;
And now we stare astonished at the sea,
And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.
*Have yet to decide whether to admit its existence this year or not.
