'Know' Worse for The Wear

'Know' Worse for The Wear

A Poem by Pete
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One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate. - Thoreau

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Image result for husband and wife angry in bed

Each year like clockwork,
he turned his mattress over but kept the same strife.
Next year he's leaving the mattress alone ...
... and flipping his wife ...



© 2019 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!" - Thoreau

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Added on August 7, 2019
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..