QUOTE : I will, I do, Amen, Here Here, Let's <br />eat, drink and be merry. Marriage is <br />the public spectacle of private <br />parts: <br />cheque-books and genitals, house-wares, fainthearts,<br />all doubts becalmed by kissing<br />aunt, a priest's <br />safe homily, those tinkling glasses <br />tightening those ties that truly bind<br />us together forever, dressed to the nines. <br /><br />Darling, I reckon maybe thirty years,<br />given our ages and expectancies. <br />Barring the tragic or untimely, say, <br />ten thousand mornings, ten thousand evenings, <br />please God, ten thousand moistened nights like this, <br />when, mindless of these vows, our opposites,<br />nonetheless, attract. Thus, love's subtactraction:<br />the timeless from the ordinary times -- <br />nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine.