A belated Valentines Day Poem

 sigh....internet was down for two days at the hotel in Savannah and I could not post!  Terrible!!!


so many wives
demand a special dinner, flowers and chocolates
from the men who sat all day
in hotel chairs listening to lectures
about fracture mechanics, interfacial energies and
pressure sensitive adhesives
while they shopped on Broughton Street,
but I did not
shop today, I sat in an ugly hotel
chair and listened to talks about
surface characterization, rupture mechanics
and chemical mechanical polishing.
I do not want a special dinner, flowers
and a box of chocolate.
I’d be happy for a hug and bar
of Chocolove, make that
Sea Salt Almonds in Dark Chocolate.