In other times, this day was a celebration of women's pro-creative power — the body-centered power to renew life, and the pleasure of doing so!
Strands of Celtic, Roman, and heretical Christian customs weave through Valentine's Day...
This Valentine came in the mail today—
the fe-male, that is:
Greetings from history in women's terms.
Valentine Day's is a fraud, of course, you know that,
Hall-marked and carded as it is for commerce.
But more than that:
The boy himself's a fraud.
St. Valentine's a fiction, the convenient invention
of some grim Christian churchmen.
What Valentine's Day is:
it's a thin distillation of our
midwinter night fever;
the celebration of our sexual heat and staying alive.
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