I tried marriage once, but to it I did not “take”.
It was like struggling with a huge python snake!
So I got lawyer, “Rick”, a partner in Rikki, Tikki, Tavi ….,
[LLP].
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Yeah, some of these wives sure can slither (and so can some guys!) Thanks, Mr. Briney, for a wonderfully amusing poem and accompanying philosophic commentary on life, love, and mayhem.
Staying with a snake, any time is scary....! I doubt if you were a snake charmer once! Only when the 'python' started strangling you, you realized the danger.....! Thank God, you escaped its 'strangulating hold'! Even now, I feel, you play the 'charmer's game' successfully, though not with snakes, but with serpentine beauties! Really enjoyed your legal battle before the court and the jury, but greatly object to your act of flogging the snake mercilessly!
I adored this poem. If I wasn't a born again bachelor, I'd marry it.: -) To be fair, snakes come in both genders but I was feelin ya the whole way
i am about to include this in Section A of October 2016's 'a showcase for PH poets', to be found on my PH site in my poem list. bri :)