{"sf1_id":1981045,"sf2_id":"dmW0XLnb","title":"Wedding Speech for Khaki","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":173,"posted_at":"2023-04-28T16:46:00.000Z","tags":["Congratulations Khaki","Paeonic Tetrameter","Poetry","wedding"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1981045-wedding-speech-for-khaki","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmW0XLnb","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/cf/92/cf9254b8-2ff2-44ba-82cb-b974b3d71752","description":"#58 of poetry\n\nI owe a lot to  khakidoggy, and the wedding announcement--at time of this writing six hours ago--got me feeling a little bit eloquent. I didn't plan this, it just happened when I saw the photos he posted in telegram, I dunno what to tell you.\nExcept I recall he's said he likes this meter.","content":"Well, it may not be for me to try to speak about your wedding,  \nBeyond 'congratulations,' or some mildly sexy teasing.  \nAnd it may not be the ragnarok it might be for some people  \n(I'll not name them but to say June once was theirs and is no longer.)  \nI do know how it feels, I'll say, to have the ceremony,  \nA minimum of ceremony, just enough to matter,  \nReduced to bare essentials: without bans, without engagement,  \nNo presents and no housewarming, they're both unnecessary,  \nNo honeymoon awaiting, you've been living it already,  \nNo candles nor communion nor (I trust) no coward chasteness,  \nAnd certainly no wedding dresses. Not, at least, at this one.  \nSay not that it was lacking. Say that there were no distractions  \nFrom what was after all a wedding's only point and purpose  \nLike archangels whose being is found only in their action.  \nAt least, that's how mine felt. So here's to yours! May it be happy,  \nFor if it's half as happy I don't think you'll be complaining.\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1949522-if-you-are-reading-these-they-may-be-about-you.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2011678-afterword-by-ted-v.json"}}