Instead of buying you flowers for birthdays,
Christmas, to say sorry for forgetting things
and fucking up when I’m drunk
I’m going to give the equivalent value to charities.
Instead of maintaining your mother’s grave
we’ll set up a trust fund
for Malawi orphans.
Don’t be looking outside for an ‘Especially for You’ van
pulling up outside your office on anniversaries,
I won’t be producing a bunch of red roses
from behind my back on Valentines Day
because I’ll be helping the guys in the lab cure cancer.
