Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, When is my Cupid due???

walking down rue d'Antibes in Cannes the other day, i thought to myself when admiring the new window displays--"oooh goodie, looks like red, my favorite color, is the new color for spring! how nice!"---then i realized that no, the frenchie fashion color scheme will shortly return to the standard black, grey, camel and olive. it's just Valentine's Day. this morning i walked out into a lane with piped in open-air music--french love songs, and garlands of red heart balloons overhead as far as the eye could see. the universe hates me. tell me what nation doesn't do VD these days--i'll go there.