Of national issues I have no great awe;

The theories of Einstein are simple to me,

And psychoanalysis mere A. B. C.

But there is one thing I can’t get in my head—

Why do people marry the people they wed?

I can do mathematics, no matter how high;

And to me fourth dimension is easy as pie;

Most intricate problems I readily solve,

And I know why the nebular spirals revolve.

But on this baffling question no light has been shed;