Can someone please tell me the truth of what marriage is? Is it a union of convenience or a sacred pledge? It is a business lease or penalty for temporary insanity? How many more dishes must I wash & shirts must I clean before the louse sleeping next to me admits the truth that marriage is legalized slavery? Why are so many marriages covered up affairs? Why can't more recognize matrimony as a gambling game in which the only assured outcomes are misery & pain? I'm tired of the sham & wanna proclaim: marriage is a kind of alchemy through which princes become frogs & princesses warthogs. In this institution both parties are ultimately debased, yet in spite of its inherent dangers somehow wedlock is embraced . . .