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Book 38 Page 23

Miserable and married

 

Miserable and married,

he’s got a wife that’s supposed to be loving

but all he ever gets from her is

‘pushing and shoving.’

 

She to has plenty of cripes

on her plate,

“he’s seldom home,” she says,

and when he does come home he’s always late.

 

And so; for these two partners

life is just ‘one big miserable merry go round.’

Both partners wishing that in the other

they had never found.

 

“Life would be so much simpler,” they secretly think,

if it wasn’t for their marriage,

a marriage that carries

a regrettable load of baggage.

 

And one wonders if they;

still really love each other!?

And if they have ‘on the side,’

another ‘lover.’

 

Married and miserable,

what a way to be!

One day maybe they’ll separate, get devoiced

and be free.

 

But for now they’re just happy to be;

married and miserable.

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill 4/feb/2006 www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au