Lonely Hearts

So i hope that Wendy Cope was making fun of personal ads here. If not, it's pretty pathetic. Its very rhymy which is nice. I like the repeated line at all the end of them. The truth is, these people should probably just be saying in their ads "I'm washed up and nobody wants me. I'll take anyone that doesn't have expectations as high as mine." The last stanza is really funny, yeah, who knows where it may lead? probably a rape in a dark alley. Cope is probably trying to just make these people see how pathetic these ads really are. I would not doubt it that most of these are real ads that were just changed a little bit for rhyming sake.