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By Garrison Keillor Submitted by Kirk Date: 2003 Aug 24 Comment on this Work [[2003.08.24.17.50.26365]] |
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Let us not to the marriage of people who know what they want Admit impediments. Love doesn't vary Like you might change your hair style from pixie to bouffant Or throw away your swimsuit in January. Oh no, it is an ever fixéd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken. It laughs at death and gooses statues in the park And loves a cheeseburger with extra bacon. Love's not time's fool though rosy lips and cheeks Get all wrinkly and veiny and saggy and gnarly. Love alters not with its brief hours and weeks So don't give up on it, Charley. If this be a big mistake and we wind up hissing and snarling There is nobody I'd rather be wrong with than you, my darling. --from Garrison Keillor's new novel "Love Me". (Obviously, with reference to Shakespeare Sonnet 116) |