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Marry or Divorce

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If your shirt has no button
and your trousers are roughened,
if your jacket is so crushed
and your carpet needs a brush,
if you can’t find a clotheshorse
and all the time just, curse
There is only one way out:
to marry or divorce.


 

Larisa Rzhepishevska


 


 

 

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 27th Aug 2024 10:17

Recognisable truth in these gently playful lines.

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