Rented Rooms
\nby cricketjeff on July 16, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nTo all persons of negotiable affections
\nWho ease the ache in lonely people’s lives
\nTo the shorers-up of insecure erections
\nThe substitutes for inattentive wives<\/p>\n
We all agree that love and lust together
\nTurn drudgery to Technicolor dreams
\nBut sometimes we encounter stormy weather
\nThen living isn’t everything it seems<\/p>\n
Perfection’s not in everybody’s future
\nAnd making do’s the best that some will see
\nA pretty girl can be an ideal suture
\nWhen life has only promised misery<\/p>\n
Some borrowed hope may clear the darkest sky
\nWhen purchased love bids loneliness goodbye<\/p>\n
Wherever you may be and how you travel
\nYou can be sure that sitting near to you
\nThere’ll be a man who’s sanity would unravel
\nWithout a casual carnal interview.<\/p>\n
Through history there’s talk of traded pleasure
\nOf love exchanged for gold or food to eat
\nOur brains and strength can win us hoards of treasure
\nBut on they’re own they don’t make living sweet<\/p>\n
Those girls who only married for his money
\nAll Queens who wed to aid an ailing state
\nMay think comparisons are rude or funny
\nBut that’s because they’ve twisted the debate<\/p>\n
As Terry Pratchett’s seamstresses all know
\nThere’s more to life than learning how to sew<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nIt isn’t smooth enough, and the discontinuities are too stark, but I’m finding
\nit rather hard to make words fit together at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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