It's Simple When It's Someone Else's Life Poem by gershon hepner

IT'S SIMPLE WHEN IT'S SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE


It's simple when it's someone else's life,
unless of course it's someone else's wife
in which the complications can get messy
as soon as both of them become undressy.

In "Mad Men, " Megan is trying to get back to the theater, and is hiding the fact from Don Draper. Don kept phoning Peggy the previous evening to find out where Megan might be, and on the morning after this Megan speaks resentfully to Megan, telling her she does not want to be put into an awkward position vis-à-vis Don. When Peggy starts to give her unwanted advice she says to her: "It's simple when it's someone else's wife. While Megan was deceiving Don in pursuit of a job in the theater, Pete Campbell had been allowing himself to be seduced by the wife of an insurance salesman who works in his building and had told him that he had a beautiful 24-year-old girl on the side. Pete drives the wife home because her husband had failed to arrive on the train taking him back from Manhattan. Pete assures her that he is busy working but she gives him a passionate kiss and they commit instant adultery.

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