In case today is not the Valentine's Day of movies and songs, here are some "Anti-Love Poems" about breakups, heartache, and unrequited love. The Poetry Foundation describes these as more �Screw Cupid� than �Be Mine.�
A few samples:
�The Glass Essay� by Anne Carson
In the days and months after Law left
I felt as if the sky was torn off my life.
I felt as if the sky was torn off my life.
I mutter, �I feel like a killer.� �I�mthe killer��taking my wrist�he says,
holding it.
holding it.
if you look
for alimony,
it follows
acrimony
for alimony,
it follows
acrimony
�Semele Recycled� by Carolyn Kizer
After you left me forever,
I was broken into pieces,
and all the pieces flung into the river.
�The Breather� by Billy Collins
All that sweetness, the love and desire�
it�s just been me dialing myself
then following the ringing to another room
it�s just been me dialing myself
then following the ringing to another room
�Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied� by Edna St. Vincent Millay
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,�so with his memory they brim.
To go,�so with his memory they brim.
�Sonnet [You jerk you didn�t call me up]� by Bernadette Mayer
I�m through with you bourgeois boys
All you ever do is go back to ancestral comforts
All you ever do is go back to ancestral comforts
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