Why do people marry the people they wed?
Long hours over Nietzsche I frequently spend,
I’ve all his philosophy at my tongue’s end.
Of Freudian conclusions I haven’t a doubt.
I’ve got human complexes all straightened out.
But on this deep problem I muse in my bed—
Why do people marry the people they wed?
I’ve studied up ancient religions and cults,
I’ve tried spiritism with curious results;
I know the Piltdown and Neanderthal man,