"In another age, catching your wife fellating another man in a bathroom stall of a nightclub would have been sufficient grounds to remove her nose. Celebrate, then, the progress of culture!"
- The Book of the Watcher, Chapter 5, Verse 12
Lorena and little Johnny Wayne
Orenthal is free, Nicole, where are you again?
Robin and Mike Knockout, hot video game
Robert and Bonnie, ah, what a mess
Whitman...
Throwing rice is a celebration of something that will end
Author notes
"Whitman" refers to Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper, who, on August 1, 1966, killed his mother and wife before going up the University of Texas Tower in Austin to continue his rampage.
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- Giovanni
Written February 11th, 2004
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WOW
ok, um wow. well you know how i feel about marriage poems, LOL... but this is... WOW.
Trin -
Awwwwwww thats sweet - may parents aren't far off - 34 years in June!
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Yeah, I should have clarified that not all marriages are doomed to fail. My own parents will be celebrating their fortieth anniversay this year, so go figure.
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Intreresting way that you tackled this piece - very contemporary
I dont think all marriages are destined to fail miserably in one way or another... I just think people get married and don't think it through enough... Its all well and good the grand proposal, the elated crying future bride screaming yes etc etc etc
BUt then the reality sets in and both man and wife realise that maybe they didn't count on his love of train spotting, and her love of picking her toenails or whatever!
LOL sorry am ranting - guess what I am saying is I just want to do it right and if I ever marry it will be for life
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OH! lol, I get it now
Nice I like it actually, it is kinda ironic funny. lol, thanks for explaining to the retard I feel so enlightened now, and hey, you learn sumthin new everyday 
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excellent
Ah....Gio. You are humming the theme song of the life I've chosen to live for more than 20 years....working with victims of domestic violence and their families....but, the media doesn't see that there's a real problem....."Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain....I am the great and powerful Oz"....and in 5 or ten or fifteen years, the media will disclose that more than 89% of the women murdered in our nation are murdered by significant others, and we'll all go "ooooo....ahhhhhh....how shocking!" - just like we did when they told us priests were molesting kids. Go figure. Thanks for shining a light on this.....every little bit helps.
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This was an ironic piece, how basically marriages seem doomed to fail. I referred, respectively, to Lorena and John Wayne Bobbit, OJ and Nicole Simpson, Robin Givens and Mike Tyson, Robert Blakely and Bonnie whatever her name is, the wife he may or may not have killed. And, of course, Charles Whitman, who killed his wife before going on a rampage that left 12 more people dead and many wounded. Not funny ha ha, not at all, but peculiar. Hopefully this was a good enough explanation. LOL, this comment is longer than the poem .
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What the hell?
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