It was fifty years ago today.

The folks said 'I do' in Phoenix

after having trouble finding

a magistrate on a holiday.

They stayed married till

his death in 1982,

thirty-three years together,

always loving each other,

Four years along they

decided to do something

they didn't have to,

they decided to love me.

but this is about them,

both long gone now,

the two finest people

I have ever known.