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O but what about love?

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

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O but what about love? I forget love 

not that I am incapable of love
it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes—
I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother 

And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible 

And there’s maybe a girl now but she's already married 

And I don't like men and-- 


But there's got to be somebody! 

Because what if I'm 60 years old and not married, 

all alone in furnished room with pee stains on my underwear 

and everybody else is married! All in the universe married but me!


Ah, yet well I know that were a woman possible as I am possible 

then marriage would be possible-- 

Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover 

so I wait--bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life.

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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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