Valentine’s Day Horror

Photo by Sierra Koder on Unsplash

Fortnight in February

They’re all wearing pink and red hearts

Gifting chocolates and recently dead

I said the recently departed

I tell you, the dead roses

I say,

What a day to wish their roses thorn and wrap their heads

impale their hearts

bleed their eyes, explode their hearts

and turn them into corpses

Billions due to expire like lumpy, bumpy milk

And put their bodies through a mill

to separate bones, muscles, and cartilage, compress their skin into

Fleshy Meshy Silk.