You didn't say you loved men with suits dressed as barflys, buzzing around the counter for that one last drink. Home a memory slushed in ice cubes and excuses.
You didn't say either, you needed a sunday church- goer dressed in a grey suit of psalms and canticles and ropes of revelation wonders which would send you scampering to the pages of eternal life, wisdom and penitence.
You didn't say that you wanted a one-eyed wonder with the other eye permanently fixed on butts and guts, ***** and tubes and one night stands in a circus tent of innuendos.
You did say, however, that you wanted a quiet life, of roses and candlelight dinners and wine chilling in a bucket of excuses of fun and frolic and fame and when I married you, you danced the night off in satin, confetti and cake and whatever and I admired your mother in her wonderful up lifting dress.