The annual Stranger Valentine’s edition is a lovely tradition filled with sincerity and exhibitionism and lots of other things that create warm feelings. While everybody is feeling mushy, CHS has some big love for Capitol Hill — but we’d like you to put it into words.
Starting today at noon through noon Valentine’s Day, CHS will donate $2 to worthy cause Queer Youth Space for every Capitol Hill love note added in the comments on this post.
All you have to do is leave a comment professing your love for a Capitol Hill person, place or thing. It can be short. Because it pertains to love, it must contain one rhyme. Come Thursday noon, we’ll tally up your sweet totals and cut a special Valentine’s check.
Capitol Hill love notes 2013 official rules
- Comments must be added to this post before 12 PM Thursday, February 14, 2013
- Your love note must contain a rhyme! We’ll be auditing!
- Automated means of adding content, repeated content, or other actions deemed not in the romantic spirit of lovey dovey Valentine’s will render entries invalid!
- CHS not responsible for technical outages, site availability!
- Exclamation!
Rancho Bravo, it’s to you we stumble.
Always glad you get our drunk mumble.
All us freaks and hippies will think you are a butt-head
If you park at Central Co-op but shop at Trader Joe’s instead
We studied in Victrola until our parking was expired
I shared my paper with you when you had none, you did admit
As always, thought I needed a triple but instead was left quite wired
Also I meant to tell you that I really liked your outfit.
So we washed it down with Mario’s, I bought you a meaty slice,
And in return I got a cupcake, I was enamored with the sprinkles
I hope you know I wish sometimes such gestures had no price
I hope we can be friends like friendship that forever twinkles
Some say The Amherst
is The Worst
But no pity for shitty,
I can walk to quench my thirst.
When I wake, it is you that I crave.
Longing comes over me like a wave.
You are soft and tender and sweet.
The taste of you makes me complete.
I savor you as you touch my lips,
Drinking in your aroma with slow sips.
As I hold you gently in my hand,
I want it to echo across the land
That like any other you are not.
I love you, pink rainbow donut from Top Pot.
If you have nineteen dollars extra,
The Needle view will really getcha.
Folks take their guests from out of town
To see the hills and lake and Sound.
But if I had the yelling power
I’d bellow “Volunteer Park tower!”
Then use that extra twenty bucks
To get something that doesn’t suck. Or that does. Depending on what you want.
lets eat at rancho bravo
then chillax at qys
i heart jude watson
On your knees
Back by the trees
Volunteer Park
Never fails to please
There’s just so much that I crave
Spicy Pork and Kalbi Beef are my fave
Oh how much I love you Marination
I make excuses to swing by the station.
Oh I’d rather not sit and reflect
My soul’s destiny with such neglect
Sure, academics were great
But we learned not to hate
Cheers to Lowell, here’s 2 bucks to collect!
No Valentine for me
Why am I put through this misery?
Will I have to make love to a statue?
Someone please show me how-to
It’s okay, Capitol hill is here to say
You’re not alone, okay?!
Too the window to the wall
It’s loves surrenders all
Tuesday night hotdog guy,
You always remember me.
Veggie dog with kraut, you know what I’m about.
Our meetings were meant to be.
Do you love me?
The question in which my mouth could not say
because the atrocious sound of my beating heart became wobbly
in your hands up to this very day.
Capitol hill, oh yes, lots to mention.
Almost afraid to list.. Yup, apprehension.
Regardless, oh how my heart’ll race
at the door of the queer youth space.
Capitol Hill Seattle, you wonderful blog,
More seemly, more local than neighbor the SLOG,
You promote my notices about stuff in the ‘hood,
Show them to more eyes than I ever could.
You’re here for the fire, the flood and the snow,
I’m always amazed at the places you go.
Chief…. You are my absolute everything! I never imagined anyone who could make me so incredibly happy… I cannot wait to be your wife, and for you to be mine… My perfect, PERFECT Valentine!!! I love you! Me!
I’m scary and bearded,
But CapHill, no fearded
When, ago, a year did
I come to be weirded.
victrola, vivace we get you twice.
stumptown too, is a double vice.
for coffee, I choose a new location anytime,
but for queer youth they tried to say: isn’t that one place for you just fine?
nope!
<3 QYS
the views off your back of the lake sound and sky,
they’re so pretty i cry
dear capital hill boy
i am your toy
this valentine’s day
we can play
My love for Volunteer Park, whilst random, is not a mere lark
the dahlias and crows, the conservatory knows
frolicking with my dog leaves it’s mark
Oh Anna,
I Love to watch you eat bananas.
Its TRUE!!!!
The way you peel the skin.
To watch your mouth dig in.
Makes me hot inside.
Fills me with Gay LOVE Pride.
To watch your pretty face
makes my heart still race.
Happy Day of LOVE
You big Gay wad!
We met, fell in love, said “I will”,
and I moved with her up to the Hill.
It’s been a good life
of high times and strife
but K, you know I love you still.
Kyle is cute
Prisons & cops are not.
He’ll help all his clients not get caught.
Capitol Hill, the home to Black Coffee
when I’m on the bus, I hop offee
I stop in for a beer, chat with anarchists and queers
about Revolution and Muammar Gaddafi
To all of you who face adversity
the criticism of society
read my words, listen to me
I offer up this humble plea:
We all are beautiful, we’re on the same team
as MLK Jr. proclaimed, have this dream:
A world where love for another is not “wrong”
A world where all of us can get along.
I am so proud to make our family official. March 4th is the day that I give you my whole heart for life. Being married to you is the best Valentines gift a girl could ever ask for. I love and adore your face!
Weary reading law book cases
I never see any other faces
Hours spent in highlighting, briefing
Outlining, arguing, driving, weeping
My brain feels more than a bit like mush
And chattering undergrads are told to HUSH
I’m trying to memorize complicated stuff
I speak on easements, res ipse loquitur… (it’s a bluff)
Easements, injunctions, 12 b 6’s
Torts, Property, Civ Pro- It mixes!
And to top it off, I don’t know how I’m doing
Until the final exam I just have to keep stewing
But despite the work, lack of time and lack of friend’s
I know it will be worth it when it ends
Because you and I will be a powerhouse team
I’ll have the money and you’ll have the dream
And between us two there’s a verbal contract
When we’re with each other there’s no need to act
I love you when you’re stressed out, pissed off, and moody
You feel the same for me (and you have much bitchier duty)
And to conclude this semi-legal memo
I’ll provide a relationship demo
Even though neither of us has any time
We love each other enough to waste some on a rhyme
That’s the kind of relationship that matters
One that’s reliable, caring, and sometimes flatters.
Roses are red, violets are blue;
Be who you are, I love you for you.
Soon will be spring, the flowers a’bloomin’;
Be kind to your neighbors, ’cause we’re all human.
I had the best 20’s and early 30’s thanks to Cap Hill
Xxxooo
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Valentine’s day is for everyone
Queers, straights and you too.
Drunk at 1am, we lumber
To Rancho Bravo’s plunder
Of burritos, sublimely greasy
Quesadilla rich and cheesy
Jaurito’s to wet my desire
Set my beefy heart on fire
Lovers share with one another
And neither suffers a hangover
Hippy slippy trippy dimpsters riding around on your pimped out fixed gears chillin and wheelin at the bar no car from home you roam alone in a pack on your back king of beat up hill streets
A sunflower is yellow and so is a posie, I am so lucky to have a friend named Rosie! Happy Valentines Day.
Saturday mornings I reluctantly awake
All puffy and tired, I’m way too hungover!
Late night festivities, yes I did make
What the heck happened? I did not go to bed sober!
I check my reciepts to go back in time
Can someone please tell me where I spent my last dime?
The memories flood back with a big fat HA HA
How could I forget, it’s always the CHA CHA!!
at last a trophy has been won
in the contest for the gayest pun….
rancho bravo, you may not be nutritious
but your burritos are clearly the most delicious
i wanted somebody to blow me
so i headed on over to pony
had several beers
with hot sexy queers
but too many drinks leave me groaning!
Whenever my heart goes j-pitter-patter
I must be near that ol’ jseattle!
Long Hair
Don’t Care
I just came out last year, at 29
Queer and poly, it’s so divine
Throw kink in there, don’t you grouse
Just bought a fox tail at the Dog House
Oh CHS, how you bring a thrill
To all events on Capitol Hill.
Whether covering fashion or food
I’m always in the mood
for your sweet brand of love!
I put on my shoes for the Cuff
looking is just never enough
I bring em back home
and love ’em til morn
Cap Hill has the bestest to love
Cal Anderson and your goofy smile
Little urban park of my heart
Ridiculous urban dude of my dreams
For you, I’d go many an extra mile.
Glad for the Hill
Across the mountains.
A few QYS youth;
Barely met you,
But love the fb posts
And won’t forget you!
dear valentine,
please be mine
though the atmosphere is lacking,
the nachos are sublime.
we could split a plate
if we were on a date.
i’m looking for a good excuse
to tell you how i feel
i guess now that it’s valentine’s day
i’ll spill it all, for real(z)
my friends, i think you’re super fly
you make me smile and laugh
when capitalism says: buy, buy, buy
we turn around and smash!
I I love my Piston and Ring!
With D&H, SKL, and the GeBA!
It makes my heart sing
To sit under Plum and La Spiga.
It was on your street
Where 15th and Republican meet
I met a girl oh so sweet
Especially under my bed sheet.
I packed my bags long ago,
pre-light.
I miss the Hill so much,
especially night.
It’s lonely here up north,
such a timeless plight.
But it’s not gonna be a long, long time,
til light rail brings me ’round again.
I’ll find I’m not who I am at home,
Oh no, no, no, I’m a rocket man.
A thrill by any other name is not a hill.
Arose, this arose, this arose
As a Capitol ole Jill.
Queer wears glasses
What a babely scientist
Spins their centrifuge
Restaurants and bars, in Capitol Hill, I dabble.
But my favorite spot is a friend’s place where we like to play Scrabble.
Coco Yum Yum,
It’s a bit scary down here
as we float in the ever changing abyss
with nothin more than my pretty swirly tail
and your sweet sweet love, my snake, as a guide
where,so far,we seem to both gratefully exhale.
xoxo
Aunque pues no venden tacos
Ni de pato ni de pavo,
Sigue siendo bien chingona
La comida de Rancho Bravo
All of our flaws
on and on
and on and on
take them out
up and up
and out and out
planted in the spring
uncovered in the fall
plant them again
next spring
come home
to more
Word bird