When you enter a room where there is a party in progress
Normally you ignore the introductions:
This is Tom; and Jerry; and Micky; and Mouse -
They are all much the same - male mouths
Malevolent with magnanimity or females
Grinning gratuitously: but tonight
I paid attention when I was introduced to a man
Whose name was Tom-and-Ann:
All night I looked hard at him from all angles,
Even going so far as to look down his brass neck,
But all I could see was a young, middle-aged man
With coal-black hair cut in a crew-cut such
As would make you freeze, or faint, of electric shock:
Nobody had noticed that his wife was not with him:
She was at another party being introduced to my wife
Who, when she came home, started humming
'Tonight I met a woman whose name was Ann-and Tom.'

Well, next time I throw a party for all the Foleys in Ireland,
God help us, I will do the introductions myself:
'Darling Donal, - This is Tom-and-Ann
And his beautiful wife Ann-and-Tom.'