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# Hallmark Holiday VI
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/hallmark-holiday-vi/
- Published: 2024-03-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Love sold and packaged, neatly, as a service, and none of this for better or for worse. The marriage institution meant to serve us, for some a blessing and for others curse, why can't it be just like a Vegas wedding...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Love sold and packaged, neatly, as a service,  
and none of this for better or for worse.  
The marriage institution meant to serve us,  
for some a blessing and for others curse,  
why can't it be just like a Vegas wedding,  
a happy, sloppy, tipsy love affair,  
with someone at the ready: change the bedding  
and leave no sign that anyone's been there.  
We study our relationships like car wrecks:  
slow down for a quick look, and then rush by,  
and passing judgement notice all their defects:  
if it's this bad then someone better die.  
No, nothing neat and packaged about love.  
Of cert not of the consequence thereof.