I Will Pledge Allegiance To My Spouse Poem by Tony Adah

I will pledge allegiance to my spouse
Yes, allegiance. All of it
I will hang upside down
Like a bat
I do not want her to suspect me
Of being inside the room with someone else
Or to be outside somewhere
With a horde of them.

I will pledge allegiance to my spouse
And hang upside down
Like a bat and escape from her nagging songs
I will hang upside down like a bat
In her vantage view from where
She'll watch me dangling alone
And pluck her whims from her cynic heart
I will hang up here
With my imaginary suicide cord
And when it is severed
I will walk towards bachelorhood
The toes of my footsteps
Backing the house.