—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain
TIME TO GIVE UP
If you’re a
Dude and
Your wife
Tells you
That she has
Something unexpected
To share
And if that
Unexpected thing
Is that
She’s now
Into women
In general
And one woman
In particular,
Then it’s time
To give up.
If you’re a
Dude and
Your wife
Tells you
That she has
Something unexpected
To share
And if that
Unexpected thing
Is that
She’s now
Into women
In general
And one woman
In particular,
Then it’s time
To give up.
PARENTING LESSONS
He's young enough
To remember
Thinking of step-parenting
As an unalloyed treasure
But old enough
To know the truth.
(prev. pub. in Poem Hunter)
GRATEFUL
He's looking back
On his first marriage
And feels
Increasingly grateful
That no small humans
Were added
To the picture.
(prev. pub. in Poem Hunter)
SOMETHING LIKE THAT
He's walking along
Maple Avenue
And sees
A couple
Holding hands,
He has no idea
When he might
Be able to do
Something like that.
(prev. pub. in Poem Hunter)
REGRET
He wasted
A lot of
Good years
On her,
Regret all over.
He wasted
A lot of
Good years
On her,
Regret all over.
(prev. pub. in The Piker Press)
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Today’s LittleNip:
Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.
—Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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—Medusa, with thanks to Taylor Dibbert for today’s fine poetry!
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