POST-VALENTINE HEMORRHAGE

"... love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing.

It's unreasonable, of course.

Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love...

and nothing fails as often....

Love must be troubled to be interesting.

We crave love, can't live without its intimacy, though it pains us...

... and every person in therapy has a love disorder:

never felt love, can't find love,trapped by love,

unraveled by love, thinks love is lust or love is loss,

fears love, loves too much, uses love for profit,

jealous in love, lost in love,

love affairs, unrequited love,

love sick, doesn't love Mom, won't love Dad,

can't love the kids, can't love the self,

hopeless love, self-absorbed love, love as a crutch,

love as a truncheon, love in ruins,

crazy love, love that eats the heart,

careless love, drowning love, love that dares not speak its name,

blind love, consuming love, dangerous love,

first love, last love,fickle love,

love and mariage, love lost, secret love,

love on the run, love that hates, dutiful love,

borrowed love, thief of love, love in embers,

love in vain, love in shackles, love maligned,

love that warps the mind a little..."