Valentine''s Day | David Bowie | West Coast | Is shelter

Postmodern Love



I'm wandering the store aisles in search of a Valentine's Day card. I can't find anything that reflects the complicated times we live in. So, I've concocted a few that update what David Bowie famously called modern love to what I call postmodern love.

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GLOBAL-WARMING VALENTINE

Front image: Pastel drawing of the West Coast shoreline morphing into the shape of a heart.

Front message: Climate Changes. Don't You.

Inside message:
Oceans may rise
From the planet a'warming
But your nonpolluting love
Is shelter from the storming.

Signed: Till the end of time - which, depending on the estimates and what we do in the meantime, could be in only, like, a hundred years!!!
Much love,
Stan
PS: Are you going to the demonstration on Saturday?

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MULTIPLE-MARRIAGE VALENTINE

Front image: A gauzy picture of an older man and a younger woman gazing into each other's eyes as the sun sets.

Front message: Third Time's a Charm

Inside message:
When I married the first time
I knew it wasn't right
When I wed the second time
I ended up so contrite
Now, here I am, a third time
And I must say, it's dy-no-mite!