Felicitations: Double Wedding

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Double Wedding

Nell and Cecily, loving each other,

Said to Ferdinand, Nell's older brother,

"Please be there when we're tying the knot."

He replied, just as quick as a shot,

"If you'll come on the fifteenth of June

When I'm marrying Peter at noon."

Double Wedding is part of the poem series Felicitations by Felicia Nimue Ackerman. Ackerman is a professor of philosophy at Brown University and has had over 200 poems published in a wide range of places. We are lucky to get to have a few of them published right here at Options Magazine.