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Valentine The colour red is prominent this week – Red hearts, red lips, interminable red roses. But here's what makes my Valentine unique: Bent low over the desk, patient, she poses Unmoving while I colour each proud cheek With red deeper than any painted heart. … Submitting does not show her soft or meek; She must be strong to play the weaker part. Perhaps you need the warmth of which I speak, Spread through your loins by crop or tawse or cane. Is this a new experience you seek, Or one you had before and must again? So let your heart-shaped bottom now be mine; Once scarlet, it shall be our Valentine. ©1998 William Gadsby |