Romance Ponderer Pillows

"We're taking separate vacations this year."

'Tall and dark, yes - but do you call this handsome!?'

"Darling, I think we need to talk about where this relationship is going..." Male evolution.

'Yes love is a potent drug indeed...but I still don't think we can analyze it using gas chromatography...'

"I don't know why you always have to choose the same hide-and-go-seek hiding spot that I do, Tommy!"

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"Sometimes Peter I wish it would just stay as water."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

'...And then, I guess our relationship got TOO meaningful.'

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

"Look - I'm cold, you're cold. Why don't we settle down and start a family?"

'He said he wasn't good enough for me, so I married him because he's the first man to realize that.'

Playground reputation.

"This may be Malcolm Gladwell talking, but we were married on the wrong day!"

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

"See what you get for thinking outside the fishbowl!"

"I'll give you my unconditional love - on one condition."

Writer

"A cluck cluck here and a cluck cluck there,...is that all I meant to you?"

A poem: With daylight's shift, winter draws near...

'You have to do something...My husband just doesn't look at me the way he used to.'

The sad case of the blind-men and the elephant.

"In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo."

"Have you seen my wife?"

"We're studying the legal principles of 'crossing a heart and hoping to die'."

'As is the fashion these days, it's about nothing.'

"If you were the only man in the world, and I were the only woman. . . would we still have to diet?"

"Being a celebrated artist, I do sometimes wonder why you never celebrate me."

'I love your poetry, m'dear - it's very Ezra Poundish.'

Meaningful...Meaningless relationships.

Shakespeare considers alternatives to iambic pentameter

"Oh Adam. This is the second...sorry, I mean third happiest day of my life."