A Couple Poem by robert dickerson

A Couple

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Bewailing the lot
of post-modern man,
he took a cab to work
she took the train.

Favoring heath
to town bouquets
they suffered a terrace
on east eighty-eighth.

Both adoring children
they kept heirless;
Both distrusting marriage
theirs was peerless.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kevin Patrick 31 October 2011

I love the contrasts that you use to describe the sequence of events 'they suffered a terrace on east eighty-eighth ', I'm not the best of reading into things but I get is the sence that your describing the bipolar effects of marriage being something that is secure but which is also a prison, a gilded prison. That last bit about 'theres was peerless' is just so depressing to think. So much said with few words. Bravo

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