“Reader, Why I Married Him” [by Molly Arden]

Because he lies on the couch and hollers at the TV set.
I believe in America, the underfaker said (stet).

And he throws beer cans at the TV set.
Do I have to tell you about every offer I get?

He buys the SI swimsuit issue and keeps them all.
How did things ever get this far? It's all

Because of what we did in the car.
No shame, no games, just a late-model used car.

Also, because he doesn't look like a scared rabbit
And we don't discuss business with George Babbitt. 

I went to "the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art,"
And got the part. He gave me a new smart

Phone, and sang "I'm not that clever, I just adore you,"
To me, and to me alone! (It's true, too.)

 

 

Comments

[Kent Johnson]

Though on one level I understand it, on another level I don't, completely.

Why does this post have O Likes, and the post on the Martin Espada anthology have 687?

The Star Wars disparity must say something about poetry and its trends, but I am not sure what.

[The Best American Poetry]

I believe Sports Illustrated is un-PC, especially the swimsuit issue, but Molly Arden's poem specifically says her husband (or the speaker's husband) collected them so I, as one of the editors responsible for art, chose the picture, which maybe people think they're not supposed to like. American Puritanism takes many unusual forms. -- DL