Anne Waldman
Stereo
Stereo
Marriage marriage is like you say everything everything in stereo stereo fall fall
on the bed bed at dawn dawn because you work work all night. Night is an
apartment. Meant to be marriage. Marriage is an apartment & meant people
people come in in because when when you marry marry chances are there will
be edibles edibles to eat at tables tables in the house. House will be the apartment
which is night night. There there will be a bed bed & an extra bed bed a
clean sheet sheet sheet or two two for guests guests one extra towel. Extra
towel. How will you be welcomed? There will be drinks drinks galore galore
brought by armies of guests guests casks casks of liquors liquors & brandies
brandies elixirs sweet & bitter bitter bottle of Merlot Merlot Bustelo coffee. Will
you have some when I offer. When you are married married there will be handsome
gifts for the kitchen kitchen sometimes two of every thing. Everything is
brand brand new new. Espresso coffee cups, a Finnish plate, a clock, a doormat,
pieces of Art. And books of astonishing Medical Science with pictures. Even
richer lexicons. When you are married married there will be more sheets sheets
& towels towels arriving arriving & often often a pet pet or two two. You
definitely need a telephone & a cell phone when you are married married. Two
two two two lines lines lines lines. You need need separate separate electronicmail
electronicmail accounts accounts. When you are married married you will
have sets sets of things things, of more sheets & towels matching, you will have
duplicates of things, you will have just one tablecloth. When you are married
married you will be responsible when neighbors neighbors greet you. You will
smile smile in unison unison or you might say he is fine, she is fine, o she is just
down with a cold, o he is consoling a weary traveler just now, arrived from
across the Plains. She my husband is due home soon, he my wife is busy at the
moment, my husband he is very very busy busy at the moment moment this
very moment. Meant good-bye, good-bye. When you are married married sex
sex will happen happen without delay delay. You will have a mailbox mailbox
& a doorbell doorbell. Bell bell ring ring it rings rings again a double time. You
do not have to answer. That’s sure for when you are married people people
understand understand you do not have to answer answer a doorbell doorbell
because sex sex may happen happen without delay delay. You will hear everything
twice, through your ears & the ears of the other. Her or him as a case case
may be be. He & he & she & she as a case case may be may be. When you are married
married you can play play with names names & rename yourself if you like.
You can add a name, have a double name with a hyphen if you like. You can
open joint accounts when you are married. Marriage is no guarantee against
depression. A shun is no guarantee against anything. Marriage is no guarantee
against resolution. Revolution is a tricky word word. Here, you hear here?
Marriage is sweeter sweeter than you think. Think.