From ‘Tom & the Thumbscrews’

Skooling on Sundaes

A contemporary poem

(Internet archive)

She was a beautiful silver-blonde girl,
not exactly Swedish but not exactly not either,
married to a most likeable guy,
widely considered
handsome, upright and decent.
So far so good.
But after fifteen years or so of marriage
they divorced;
and she soon married again,
this time to an ‘unknown’
who had not really registered…