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skint valentine

By Tom Pickard

what we have is
what there is
and who we are

and who we is
is love

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A note from the editor:

Today is Valentine's Day. Read more love poems in the Love Poems collection, Love Poems from Poetry Magazine collection, and the Queer Love Poems collection.

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