Tuesday, December 4, 2012

what-so-ever -!-

Ok
     I give up...

Graduating
     Summa Cum Laude
          with a Master's Degree,
              (Decree)

Has nothing
     What-so-ever
          to do


               -with Plumbing-


I majored
     in one of those
          subjects
Which seems
     to have
          no application

What-So-ever

     to the Real
          World

But I'm learning...

    - a guy with a
     wrench
who won't
     rip you off-

is worth his weight
     in Gold

even at today's prices-

especially at today's prices-


These women
     with husbands
          who
               fix things


-Need to pause
     for a moment
          and reflect
               that-

even-though
     he can be a
          pain sometimes

They are not
     left alone
with a
     phone book
          and a growing puddle
               of water
                    under the kitchen sink!

And if they
     call guys
          to come-
There will be
     another guy there
          to talk
               to the guys...

So if your guy
     is at all
          nice

     or kind
          and ...
               can fix things...

Make sure
     he never
           learns to
               dance -!-


for then,
     my friend

he would be
     just too
          wonderful

for words-

     for any words,

          What-So-Ever!
    



an Evening to Remember

yes
it was an evening
to remember

I stumbled only
a few times
when dancing with
the "teacher"

When dancing with
my partner
we swung
around the floor

and I remembered
     why I do this...

the ankle gave
an awesome tweak
when first
     I stepped upon it

It held up after that
I vow
to be more careful
with it

I view that spot
in the yard
with suspicion now

I will get hand rails
for those steps

The minute I can
afford it

there are some things
worth
getting up
and getting dressed for

fox trot, swing, and waltzes
come to mind

live band-
slightly off key
     singer


difficult to find the place
amongst all those tall, trimmed hedges

dark and all, we parked up front
figuring the legitimate rich
had left by now

we the illegitimate
rabble had arrived
and like the look-ee-loos we are
---took cell phone pictures
of everything
and ourselves among them

texting pictures
to people
who probably
couldn't care less

we had peppermint ice cream
for desert
and when our neighbor
didn't eat his
we stole it

melty, stolen peppermint ice cream
tastes better
in between a mambo
and a jive

than almost
anything else
on earth