Alison Wells Author

If you haven’t already, make your way to the wonderful Year Zero Writers website, a collective of writers who aim to engage with their readers as much as possible by posting often and by offering free downloads of their work.  Recently they invited others to post Valentines on a literary theme. Here is my creation.

(Note: this is an old post, Year Zero folk have moved on to new things :))

Use the fire escape Cathy
Or the front door
Its fricking perishing
On the moor
The double glazing salesman had me
At u-values
And I value u, u know I do
But I got those integrated lock thingy’s
That stop the windows being jimmied
Hang on there a tick
While I get my slippers
Don’t want my feet slapping on the cold stairs
Like flapping kippers

You look like Helena Bonham Carter
In that rig out
Quit your tapping woman
There’s no need to shout
That Bronte woman had me painted like Eminem’s Stan
Or a droog from Kubrick
These fluffy puppy slippers
Suggest another rubric
I’ll just nip down and get the burglar alarm deactivated
Cos when u and I are parted I just hate it
I heart u Cathy, I always will do
The pain just grabs me, stabs me
Like a kind of voodoo

What’s the code again? Bugger
A few more deadlocks, dreadlocks maybe
Just a jiffy I’ll be there for you.

Can’t wait, Your Heathcliff, baby