Love
Not Love you? Dear, I'd pay ten quid for you:
Five down, and five when I got rid of you.
Marriage
'My wife and I — we're pals. Marriage is fun.'
Yes: two can live as stupidly as one.
Editor Archie Burnett dates these to December 1953 and January 1954, so no allusion is intended to the Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn standard "Love and Marriage," which it pre-dates.
from Philip Larkin, The Complete Poems ed. Archue Burnett
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). A paperback version of this essential
volume has an official publication date of April 2.