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CEE

    This slender book of verse represents one in a series of 4 chaps, each delineating on one aspect of the following third-rate CEE poem:

The Quartering of the Universe Into Active and Passive Principles

Booze
Beasts of Burden*
Heraldry
Death
The 4 Basic Food Groups of Existence

    The drunkie-wunkie stuff, is elsewhere. My treatise on spacious skies, amber waves of grain, purple mountains’ majesty, a fruited plain and a shining sea, is also elsewhere. You can read about dying in a different chap, too, pretend you relate and ̶know̵. This is the BEASTS OF BURDEN volume, taking its cue not from Br’er Donkey or the weak bet that finished 4th in the Preakness, but from the institution of marriage and cohabitation. I’m truthfully no good at this subject. Like higher math, it looks interesting, but requires effort.
    I really thought you just paired off. Really. Just paired off. Simple approach, take her by the hand, no different than asking someone to dance. It was just a lifelong dance, that’s all, a Lindy Hop at 78 RPM...but, together, you know: ̶Here we are. Let’s hang out. Your toothbrush goes there. No, no kids for me, thanks, I’m allergic.̵ Very simple. Quite easy. No mess, no fuss. Add water, stir. Voila!
    Amen, Mom. I’m screaming down myself on the half-century mark, and I’ve seen exactly 4 marital archetypes pass by. Either he grovels or she crawls, or it’s Balboa vs. Creed, Round 14...or, both parties are emotionally dead. And, don’t know it. And, don’t care. And, those statisticians pretending to be professors, hold the dead people up to us as ̶the norm̵. And maybe, in this post-9/11, head-blur SFX straight out of Jacob’s Ladder, they should be.
    However, speaking for myself, I much prefer the Rocky fight. It’s far more exciting, if painful. As I’ve said many times, Drama IS Conflict. Within the maelstrom of LoveHateLove, at least I know I’m alive. Yo! Cut me, Mick!

CEE doing morning milking, Chicago, IL, October 8th, 1871

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