never been married

i insist for the record

to never

have been married.

the first one

lasted just a few months.

we were peach fuzzed kids.

she walked back

to her mother's 

home one evening

with a toaster oven

under her arm, an

uncle's

wedding gift

and that was it.

the second one was in

a foreign country.

not even in our language,

who knows what was

really said, or agreed

to. completely in lust

and out of our heads.

strike that one

off the list.

and the third, well.

what can be said about

that one,

that hasn't already

been said.

the psychiatrists and priests

agree,

that that one we should 

just forget.