[Vision2020] An Ode to Valentine's Day

[Tom Hansen]

>From Bob Schieffer's commentary at the end of today's (February 11, 2007)
"Face the Natioon" -

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An Ode to Valentine's Day
By Bob Schieffer

There is a threat to your health, if you're a guy out there, and so we offer
this little poem as a warning: 


Valentine's Day is next Wednesday, I hear. 
So write it down because I know this is true. 
To forget Valentine is a felony crime 
to every woman that I ever knew. 

A good woman's love is the best thing there is, 
but an old guy like me understands, 
forget Valentine and she'll turn on a dime. 
You'll have a loon astronaut on your hands. 

Late getting home, lampshade for a hat, 
they'll let it go once, maybe twice. 
But no Valentine, hon? I suggest that you run. 
That butcher knife is ready to slice. 

On a hill far away where the grass is so green, 
is the grave of a well-meaning guy. 
Carved there on his stone that stands all alone 
is a warning for all who pass by: 

"Had I written it down, I wouldn't be here. 
They wouldn't have needed this shrine. 
Because I am the one, poor son of a gun: 
The man who forgot Valentine."

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"