The Wedding of Heaven and Hell: Two Types of Matrimony
Dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor and Melania Trump
I don’t believe in marriage. It’s rotten
From start to finish like a match that’s thrown
By bribery. It’s not cricket. Ill-gotten
Agreements made for fiscal gain are shown
For what they are. The woman or the man
Who weds for money is a legal whore
(Or gigolo). A contract that began
On filthy lucre won’t become much more
Than that. But marriage based on Hollywood-
Style love is just as doomed. It might as well
Not dawn. It’s all as daft as Bollywood
And quite as fake. They’re both a form of hell
That’s gilded: Talleyrand is turds in silk
Fine stockings. They are both designed to bilk.