{"id":1062,"date":"2009-09-09T02:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2009\/09\/09\/a-new-poem-pre-nuptials\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T03:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T08:01:23","slug":"a-new-poem-pre-nuptials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/09\/a-new-poem-pre-nuptials\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Poem | “Pre-Nuptials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HANS TIETZE AND ERICA TIETZE-CONRAT<\/p><\/div>\n

Imma gonna marry you
\nI can’t take it when eyes are so sullen and blue
\nI’m just not interested in pokin’ round this hay anymore
\nI’m interested in the stars and opening their spring bottom door<\/p>\n

Take it slow
\nLet all the rest of it go
\nWe’re gonna be a much happier Kannon
\nWorkin all week saving up for the weddin’.<\/p>\n

A horse of turnips and emerald glass
\nThe neighbors will all sigh and wave as they pass
\nWho’s that button poking his nose through the glass?
\nWait up too late and the fading lights will dimly ask.<\/p>\n

Send him to Cancun we’ll sport the bill
\nHis last shot at dancing getting a thrill
\nNo mammas too tough to ask back her babe
\nWe’ll leave so early so she won’t know ’til light we got away<\/p>\n

Stay all night get drunk til dawn
\nThen fly back home and curl up on the lawn.
\nBabe hold on to the last string in the score
\nWe’ll wrap it around the 12 headed monster bursting outta the sea’s silky floor.<\/p>\n

No no don’t drink that sour old milk
\nWe can’t chalk it up ’til we’ve sealed the deal.
\nI know, I know you want to be brought to the village door
\nHear the reverend’s sacrament and the townsfolk roar.<\/p>\n

The only life worth livin’ is just outside of town
\nThe cityfolk sayin’ those bastards are clowns
\nI think back dark how cold it was
\nChristmas was soon the square was abuzz<\/p>\n

Too brave to start
\nAll strung out didn’t have no heart
\nAs long as I was threatening I had to go
\nI wanted to see the ice caps crystalize in the snow.<\/p>\n

I’ll never forget the tears you shed
\nOr the lives we led.
\nWe’re brave souls in the nest we made
\nIt’s all headed to hell, but at least we’ll have each other right up to the last day.<\/p>\n

Sent from my iPhone<\/p>\n

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