~ Ed ~

Ed was in love with a cocktail waitress,

but Ed's family, and his friends, didn't approve. So he broke it off.

He married a respectable woman

who played the piano. She played well enough

to have been a professional.

Ed's wife left him...

Years later, at a family gathering

Ed got drunk and made a fool of himself.

He said, "I should have married Doreen."

"Well," they said, "why didn't you?"

~ Louis Simpson