Eat Your Heart Out

My love gave me a valentine
And said “sweet hamster, please be mine
Accept my token of affection
And love me true without rejection”

hamster and carrot valentine
But the middle of the carrot is my favorite part!

But deep inside my skeptic’s soul
I saw no heart, but just a hole
Where once a yummy treat resided
“Call this a gift?” I soon derided

hamster and carrot valentine
Awmn nawm nawm…

“Give me a hole? That takes some gall!
I want the whole or none at all!”
My greedy pride could stand no more
With angry teeth I slashed and tore!

hamster and carrot valentine
Take THAT, negative space!

But then I paused; What did I do?
I’d ripped her precious gift in two!
I thought myself so proud and smart
But fool I was, I broke her heart

hamster and carrot valentine
Sowwy.

Found on Twitter by Andrew Y.

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8 thoughts on “Eat Your Heart Out

  1. allein 🐾 February 28, 2020 / 1:52 pm

    The last pic looks like he’s swimming..

  2. Blue Footed Booby February 28, 2020 / 2:24 pm

    Turns out hamsters have adorable squinchy chew faces. Who knew?

    • debg February 28, 2020 / 2:37 pm

      We should have been able to guess from their stuffed-pouch photos earlier this week. I was laughing so hard I cried.

  3. Ricky & Bibi's Mom February 28, 2020 / 3:11 pm

    Bravo, bravissimo, to Not That Poet The Other Poet!

  4. Dulcie February 28, 2020 / 4:01 pm

    OMG this is just so cute and so amazing and so clever and a whole bunch of sweet and and and I am speechless.

  5. Dulcie February 28, 2020 / 4:03 pm

    Oh and I forgot…”take that negative space” 🤣🤣

  6. Faye February 28, 2020 / 5:29 pm

    Adorable.

  7. Zapes February 28, 2020 / 9:47 pm

    That owner doesn’t deserve that adorable dog. (But none of us does.)

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