Boss Hog : a valentine's day memory

I usually keep these things to myself

but you were ugly.

throwing that dish

letting the glass pieces rub into the floorboards

and under

where the roaches got a saccharine snowfall

ugly in that Oversized Assertive Blue Blazer way

using phrases like “no day like today” and "guts of steel" and “too good to be true”

too good to be with you.

And I mean

((really)) goddamn ugly.

I would have said it at the time

but I wouldn’t have wanted to ruin

your fu(cking Great Depressio) n.