Howdy, Merle,
The bride was a very smart lady, and a practitioner. The husband may have
thought it was weird, yes, possibly (I think he doesn't sit).
But her meaning was clear, as is Issa's. Humorous and Wise.
It's a bit like Lao Tse in the Tao Te Ching writing in fascicle 6 (I think)
that, "Nature treats Humans like straw dogs".
The bride may have turned it a bit, considering herself a force of Nature, and
warned the new Old Man, directly and dramatically in the midst of the ceremony,
that, no matter what, you're sometimes gonna be disappointed. And vice versa:
she was willing to go the distance, in case he dished it out heavy. I loved
her choice of the poem, the wise and the humorous together.
What a much better poem to read than some saccharine thing.
Anyway, they divorced, and I married her later.
--Joe
> Â weird? merle
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