Until this afternoon, a “Google search”:http://www.google.com/search?q=valentine+poem&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 for the phrase “‘Valentine Poem'”:http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/000281.html promptly returned “this elegaic masterpiece”:http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/000281.html high on the first page of results. (I know this because its been the most popular search referrer to my “website”:http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog for each of the past ten days.) Written last year by one of the leading poetic talents of his generation, I think it’s a lot better than the crap that appears to have displaced it — but whoever said “democracy”:https://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001306.html makes the best choices?