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This is an amusing marriage
poem which I wrote a long time

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before I got married.

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It's called "The
Thing to Be Done."

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The thing to be done is
not to be done quickly.

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You must wait patiently
hiding in the pillow

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like an adolescent or later
in bed with a friend's wife

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who doesn't love you yet.

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You will get out soon, the
prison chaplain promised,

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but you banged on your
plate like a child.

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You must wait until the
thing itself lunges at you

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from memories of first dates.

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In the right honest
film, she always

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smiled a girl's
believed everything.

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You've waited a long time
and grinned at the pain.

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When the real thing enters,
the preacher shakes his bell,

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the girl sighs.

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Her father beats
a drum, her mother

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cries suspecting pregnancy.

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But you know better, shouting
across the green lawns

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of solicitude, I do,
then your wife comes in.