[Editor’s Note: When Culver City’s poetess laureate and her husband Charley were invited to a 50th wedding anniversary celebration in 2014, she penned this poem – bolstered by annual additions.] 

My husband has been married

Longer than our friends

It’s just that his first marriages

All came to different ends

His first one lasted for twelve years

His second lasted three

His third was for fifteen years

And then he married me

We’ve been married 23 years

The sum is now fifty-three

So he’s been married a long, long time

To four women – three plus me..!

1/12/2015

Today we are celebrating 24

And if God’s willing

We’ll celebrate more…

1/12/2016

This year makes it 25

But he’s been married fifty-five!

Dr. Hoult may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com