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That Alice Aunt Alice married Jim is surpassed by
Jim married Alice and they’re husband and wife
1960s shock treatments then 
a teacher again a husband and both went to church
her father’s Presbyterian
Jim’s wooden leg may have been rubbing the stump
he ushered Sunday’s collection plate 
Navy Jim Lazarus the orphan loves steaks
grilled in the driveway of the small detached
the marriage didn’t last maybe two not four
had they read Dickens Copperfield
they’d have foreseen the divorce
no marriage there as remote or as near 
the incompatibility of Alice and Jim.