Marriages

Ben and J Lo tied the knot

Twenty years it took

Number of marriages between them

Total of six on the book

 

Not too many, really

But it got me thinking

How many monogamous marriages could one man do

Especially if he'd been drinking

 

I thought it might be a lot

Maybe, what, a dozen?

Recalled the age-old question in some locales

Will your wife still be your cousin?

 

Glynn Wolfe holds the US record

A Baptist Pastor who lived in Blythe

Thirty-one times down the aisle

He swore to love a wife

 

Out of all these unions

Forty children came to be

You'd think the result would be

A warm extended family

 

But when Glynn died at eighty-eight

And was buried in LA

No ex-wife and only one child

Came to his funeral that day

 

When it comes to marriages

Let no man put asunder

Emphasize longevity 

Try to hold down the number