As Is

[Lightning Rod]

love is like the federal budget
it's a foot thick and there is no
line-item veto. It's the whole package
or nothing.

There is no mix and match in love
not a chinese menu two from column A
one from column B
it's the blue plate special
what you get is what you see

no pick and choose or
ad hoc interior decorating
the property is sold as is
don't think of it as a fixer upper

[mnaz]

Basically true.

Although I tend to think of life in general as a bit of a "fixer-upper", even if underlying self-nature essentially "is what it is"..