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On marriage
tying myself into the future
the taste of one mouth on mine
its truths sometimes
sometimes its own selfserving lies
sweet
sweet
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4
On marriage
tying myself into the future
the taste of one mouth on mine
its truths sometimes
sometimes its own selfserving lies
sweet
sweet
Hmn. I’m not sure what the implications of this are. Can you explain further?
I see one of my edits didn’t make it in; should have been “my” own self serving lies.
When we marry we are committing (tying) ourselves to one particular imagined future, one significant person (one mouth) and ruling out many other possibilities. Sometimes it doesn’t work out the way we had imagined, but parts of it can still be sweet