Your Valentine

Hide the cracked bowl
in the back of the cupboard
you might need it someday
but without air fresheners how
will we trust post-modernism
which may seem trivial to say
but in a poem you're allowed
to use symbols as walk-ins
when your t's aren't tall enough
or your m's don't quite gallop
over the hill sometimes what
makes it a poem and not a bowl
is that the horrible ugly vanity
of the world got frightened
by the thought of all
the stronger taller you's.