Virulent Valentines

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. They meter 10 syllables per line.

The lines total 14. Valentine’s Day is on the 14th. A filovirus is 1400 nm long.

The Sonnets betray [to some] that Shakespeare was really

a woman: The Dark Lady~(sonnets 127-152) Amelia Bassano Lanier.

She used stratagem to publish her work, something unheard of

for a woman in Elizabethan London. Her words breathe life to this day.

Viruses never really die, because they are not alive. They inject their genetic material into a host cell, and assume control.

Love never dies. It carries on in words and songs.

I celebrate the Shakespearean Sonnets, and Love’s perseverance,

despite viral hijack, on this: February the 14th, 2013. **