A Tangled Mess

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
3 min readJul 27, 2022

A Marriage Metaphor

Photo by Will O on Unsplash

You handed me an arm full of cords, string, and twine the day we met.

“What do you want me to do with this?” I asked.

“I am simply giving. I have no expectations,” you lied.

I decided to connect us and wrap myself up in you.

Your gift of what I thought was yourself was a nice jester; it was a way to bare your soul…

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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Mary is a writer of memories about bad experiences in Polyamory, surviving divorce and experiments with sex and dating, over 40.