Brujas and wives, machetes and knives:
Blood, sweat and tears, jeers and Bronx cheers:
Vodka and gin, misdeeds and sin:
Ambush, delay, abandon, betray:
once he espouses, he rouses decay.
Foxes and minks, prisons and clinks:
once a man gives a ring, everything stinks.
Chestnut, cliché, chagrin and dismay:
once he cojoins, a man’s loins waste away.
Argil and clay, tinctures of grey:
once a man mingles, he singles can’t play.
Strumpet and whore, reprimand and what for:
once a man bonds, he ash blondes must ignore.
Pimp and procure, entice and allure:
once a man melds, he’s a gelding for sure.
Exacting, austere, forbidding, severe:
once he unites, a man’s rights disappear.
Bishops and pawns, scallops and prawns:
once a lad plights his troth, oath swearing dawns.
Cortèges and dirges, bloodbaths and purges:
once a chap dons the yoke, mis'ry emerges.
Blinders 'n' reins, deadbolts and chains:
once he's divorced, though, he Eden regains.