Roses are red

 

yellow, orange, white, blue, black and pink.

‘Romance’ stands outside of this.

Meaning colours petals

never meant to send a message;

nature couldn’t give a shit if Tim and Tania

fuck and call it love.

Hallmark really care (about their profit) though.

 

Roses grow in muck

and Aphrodite’s tears never watered them.

It’s just association.

Symbol, sign and sound.

Twenty pounds spunked

on a gesture which is emptier

than sorries that are prefixed with an ‘if’.

 

Roses aren’t red

 

it’s just how you interpret them.

Eyes, brains, light and wave-

length do exist but

apparently

they are not ‘romantic’.

Neither is this verse

but I know you like tokens, so

 

OXO.