I gave up ugly and
housewife in my
married thought.
I was delirious around
myself and husband.
I heard the rumor
of the future Mrs.
had hunt down carcasses
of handbooks on rules.
from pages 72-73 of Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976 by Hunter S. Thompson (Simon & Schuster, 2000).