Some Anti-Love Poems for Valentine's Day

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.

   

�The Flurry� by Sharon Olds

I mutter, �I feel like a killer.� �I�mthe killer��taking my wrist�he says,
holding it. 

�Cuckoldom� by B.J. Ward

if you look
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

�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. 

�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