Cohabitation

Cohabitation:
A law that's not enforced.
A man and a woman
living together,
but not married.
Illegal.

A union of sorts,
with no rights.
Threatened to be uprooted.
Eliminated.

(written on September 11th, 2013)
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In North Dakota (where I live), it's illegal for a man and woman to live together if they aren't married to each other.