'Know' Worse for The Wear

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate. - Thoreau

Each year like clockwork,

he turned his mattress over but kept the same strife.

Next year he's leaving the mattress alone ...

... and flipping his wife ...

Author's Note

"If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!" - Thoreau