Let us observe that
the tall husband
who can get things
down for you
may also,
from time to time,
put them
up too high.
From this we can deduce
that the tallness alone
has not, after all, made him
the perfect spouse.
And if one were disposed to chance
the philosophical strain of the exercise,
one could speculate as to whether, perhaps,
some secondary virtue might be
necessary for a man’s prenuptial perfection.
