Insignificant Other Poem by gershon hepner

A husband turns into the insignificant
other if his wife does not make him look good,
because he turns into her side-kick if he can't
be coveted by desperate wives who’re in his hood.

In his obituary for Ed McMahon, Richard Severo write in the NYT on June 24,2009:

Mr. McMahon regarded his friendship with Johnny Carson as a marriage of sorts. “Most comic teams are not good friends or even friends at all, ” he wrote in “Here’s Johnny.” “Laurel and Hardy didn’t hang out together, Abbott and Costello weren’t best of friends.” But, he added, “Johnny and I were the happy exception.” “For 40 years Johnny and I were as close as two nonmarried people can be, ” he wrote. “And if he heard me say that, he might say, ‘Ed, I always felt you were my insignificant other.’ ”


6/24/09