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A Codicil to Sonnet 116
When shy young lovers flirt
with each other
Make eyes across a
parent-haunted room
Hold hands in the
magnolia-scented night
And kiss for the first…oh,
that very first kiss!
Do they anticipate petitionings
Investigations and bitter whisperings
Restraining orders,
arrearages, fail nots
Decrees more absolute than
youthful vows?
As old Shakespeare was
never wont to say
Love is not love when
arbitration binds
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