A love in verse

Come to the Show

2005-06-07
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Chivalrous feelings restrain 

A chap who is your worshipper

And yet the fact must remain: 

You spent so much time as a stripper


You stripped all over the house,

The floors, staircases and rooms

Now I wouldn’t be one to grouse

A broadminded man never fumes


Wherever you stripped there was beauty

Your stripping so pleased the eye

Why not? You thought it your duty

And I told myself: lucky guy

“To have such a wife who can strip

In such fashion – that’s real showmanship!”

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Ever Young

I’ve never thought of you as less than young

Though things concern you – imagined lines, maybe

White veins among your hair’s dark ore...

Diagnosis Day Plus Ten

When the stars go home at dawn

And the moon shuts up his shop

When hunting owls caught on the hop