A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. – Anne Taylor Fleming
The other night,
sitting in our matching brown leather chairs,
(cost more than my first new car
off the showroom floor.)
Watching The Learning Channel,
educating us today about
a couple of midgets, sorry, little people,
who have seven kids,
some bigger than the parents
and a silver Land Rover
and find out they are really
brother and sister but still want
to refurbish a house together.
In Lower Estonia.
Not even the best neighborhood.
On a budget.
And after they buy a place, turns out
they’re gonna find something wrong
& unexpected.
Also expensive.
Learning can be like that.
In between one little person asking
“Do you want carpeting in the bathroom?
and the other little person wondering
“Or should we get another foster child?
I pipe up with
Think I’ll climb on my motorcycle and
go to Leggo Land again.
My own shortie says,
you don’t have a motorcycle
That made me smile,
cause I just like to mess with her
when she’s concentrating,
carpet in the bathroom?
you can hear her think.
Never been to Leggo Land either.
See, that’s how they do.
Hypnotize your ass with reality TV
and get you drunk on
Steel Reserve.
Then have their way with you.