Saturday, July 13, 2024

Bride’s maid (response to her poem) April 21, 2012

 

 

I keep hearing the old song in my head,

 "I heard you're getting married,"

the best thing for her,

but the worst thing that could happen to him.

Only now for you being a bride, as you point out,

 ain't all it's cracked up to be,

a human sacrifice to some inhuman god,

though I can imagine how magnificent

you must look dressed up in all white,

how sad an expression you wear with it,

like someone sentenced to a life term

in some lockup, a ring through your nose

or on your finger, as frustrated as a lion,

going stir crazy as you wait at home

for him (whomever that might be)

 with pipe and slippers and the drink

 he'll need to get over the pressures of work,

a perfect concubine expected to serve him.

 


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