the Marriage bleeds puff adders.
teach her instead how to blush at her image.

the Marriage was feted by preachers
and they return without age.

their indolent chains the mark
of sullen butlers filling the parish.

the Marriage will be buried
the funeral would be lavish.

the Marriage is motherless.
tell her to dedicate an orphanage.

do not let her grieve.
show her the invention of a language -

of a language of suffering
that does not ask for release.