A Poetic Ode To Valentine's Day

01 LOVE POEMS (FOR PEOPLE WITH CHILDREN) By John Kenney

John Kenney's latest collection is a sequel to his 2018 bestseller, Love Poems (For Married People) - which is also a great gift for married folks on Valentine's Day. In both anthologies, he pokes fun at the popular myths of marriage and parenthood promising happiness and fulfilment. Instead, he shows long-term relationships for all their compromises and consolations - albeit in a loving, light-hearted way. His poems have funny, lengthy titles such as I Honour You And Our Love But I Also Lost Track Of Time At A Bar With My Co-Workers, Please Don't Compare Me To My Mother, and There Isn't A Chance In Hell We're Having Sex Now, Is There?. Here are a few verses from one poem titled Who Will Be The First To Get Up:

3.42 am and the baby is crying. Again. Who will get up first? I know that you know that I am not asleep. I'm just faking. But I also know that you know that I know that you are faking...