A Story Of A Marriage Counselor Poem by RIC BASTASA

..he is a simple man
married to an ordinary woman

the man teaches science
the woman serves as legal clerk

25 years married without a child
so they adopted the baby place beside their door

they did not know where the baby came from
they say she is a gift from God

the girl for what genes she has
turned into a woman with hysteria like Ida Bauer

got pregnant
but cannot pinpoint who from among her three lovers is the father of her child

the simple couple now gets a grandchild
so glad
the new baby has not father to speak of

they go back to the cycle
the beginning about the pleasure that the baby once left beside the fence

gave them
unspeakable bliss

of course, this shall not be
a sad story