Royce's Choices

a saraband Folks show'ring her with potpourri, Sweet Sallie starts her odyssey dancing up the row t'wards me - her shining knight with glowing smile. We say, "I do," and rush the aisle while cleric shouts with lifted voice, "I give you, Todd and Sarah Royce." A hundred nights in this romance has found my wife with looks askance. Her first love is, of course, the dance. I twist, I step to reappraise this waltz through life in cabarets. She cancans while I play the 'bone; we move this way apart, alone. I watch as dance technician leads. Resolving what this mission needs, my proposition thus proceeds to yield divorce to Roger Band - who grabs the chance for Sallie's hand. And valiant knight just rides away from Sarah Band, dance protégé...