A/N King Cole and Queen Alice have been estranged for a period of time; they are hoping to repair the damage, or will they just make the rift deeper, we leave you, the reader, to decide.

My dearest chubby checkered mate;

How are you doing? (Have you lost weight?)

Our separation has given us space

and time to contemplate our case.

I've been on a yoga retreat in Tibet;

I thought about us; and so dearest pet,

We need to talk; it's time we must

Decide what to do?-stay married, or bust?

Have we hit bottom? Is it time to part ways?

Was our rocky marriage just a painful malaise?

Should greedy lawyers settle our divorce?

Or can we agree to take a counselling course?

Can we communicate?...without hitting low?

(like nasty couples, on the Jerry Springer show.)

It's not too late; we once felt the glow-

(Like that cute Juliet and her old Romeo.)

Can we reconnect? Have relationship rescue?

What say you my dove? What should we do?

Queen Alice

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