had an intimate relationship
with a second employee, two sources told Reuters.
Once married, how the heart then reconnoiters
for the fluttering pre-fiancing beat. Well, skip.
Wags, watching from without, will quip
that any middle-agèd man who loiters
in desire’s anteroom, back-pain and goiters
begging him to keep his thingy zipped,
but ploughs ahead, has bigger problems than
mere marriage-boredom; he smells the autumn scent
of his late years, the bathbound ache of life
fleeing as it does; what doth it profit man
to beg from death what husbands all were meant
to do, and will: to predecease the wife.