For Valentine's Day

This has long been my favorite poem, and I think tonight is a good time to share it.

BARFLY

Jane, who has been dead for 31 years,
never could have
imagined that I would write a sreenplay of our drinking
days together
and
that it would be made into a movie
and
that a beautiful movie star would play her
part.

I can hear Jane now: "A beautiful movie star? oh,
For Christ's sake!"

Jane, that's show biz, so go back to sleep, dear, because
no matter how hard they tried they
just couldn't find anybody exactly like
you.

And neither can
I.

-Charles Bukowski