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O God, and the wedding!

from Corso's Marriage (2011) by Thomas Oboe Lee

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O God, and the wedding! All her family and her friends 

and only a handful of mine all scroungy and bearded
just waiting to get at the drinks and food-- 

And the priest! he looking at me as if I masturbated 

asking me Do you take this woman for your lawful wedded wife? 

And I trembling what to say say Pie Glue! 

I kiss the bride all those corny men slapping me on the back 

She's all yours, boy! Ha-ha-ha! 

And in their eyes you could see some obscene honeymoon going on—
then all that absurd rice and clanky cans and shoes 

Niagara Falls! Hordes of us! Husbands! Wives! Flowers! Chocolates! 

All streaming into cozy hotels 

All going to do the same thing tonight 

The indifferent clerk he knowing what was going to happen
The lobby zombies they knowing what 

The whistling elevator man he knowing 

The winking bellboy knowing 

Everybody knowing! I'd be almost inclined not to do anything! 

Stay up all night! Stare that hotel clerk in the eye! 

Screaming: I deny honeymoon! I deny honeymoon!
running rampant into those almost climatic suites
yelling Radio belly! Cat shovel!
O I'd live in Niagara forever! in a dark cave beneath the Falls 

I'd sit there the Mad Honeymooner
devising ways to break marriages, a scourge of bigamy
a saint of divorce--



But I should get married I should be good.

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from Corso's Marriage (2011), released June 12, 2012
Tim Krol, baritone
Holly Chatham, piano

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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