hi joe..so u married her later..was she a good catch and worth it?...merle 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
