it is an institution that has outlived our purposes
possibly
but we are dreamers, are we not?
perhaps, though, we are ready to give up on the illusion
that there is more than a middlin’ chance of survival,
of true love, of a forever love, of a lifetime commitment
and of monogamy in general
but have we given up on the entire notion
of growing old together?
This piece falls wonderfully between a currently raging debate and the wants of the very human heart. Excellent.
My favorite line is
‘that there is more than a middlin’ chance of survival’ as the inclusion of the stylistic ‘middlin’ in contrast with the rather eloquent phrasings found in the rest of the piece tell me there’s another person speaking in this poem or that the author is hearkening back to a place, maybe even a place where monogamy and marriage were so championed.
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