The Married Life: A Poem

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The Married Life

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

I have lived, and I have lied,
Where the marginal abide:
Those that we with spite cast down
To the wretched part of town.

In a room where ceilings drip,
And the paper peels in strips
From the walls which vibrate thin,
Neighbours I heard hollerin’.

Two they were, a man and wife,
At…