Love and Marriage
Don't go like horse and carriage
I know, I've on one and in the other I loved him then, he told me a tale --
After a cranberry sunset, a billion stars -- About a conference in Tokyo,
Polite accents among ikebana I had laughed, traced the line of a brow
Said peel me, shuck me like banana skin Picnic hamper plundered by our side
Sandals tossed into laughing wind Rats had stopped gnawing my insides
Waves had crooned love and marriage… Ten years later we lie -- marriage bed,
Hah, I say! -- side by tickety side Like campfire embers dying
Exchange slow chit-chat: Martha's An ass, sorry dear; Fred's mother-in-law
Took a shine to me, damp old thing -- An empty wind blows through the house
I arch and yawn, then reach for a smoke…
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