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His and Her Way

Everything in its place dear This goes here and that goes there It's all so very important I wonder why you don't care When you are so messy I swear I want to pull out my hair Didn't I just finish telling you This goes here and that goes there You lead me to frustration With your lack of consideration Don't you hear when I keep asking Oh please oh me oh my Those things a bit off of a centre Are discombobulating to this guy I'm perplexed by your disheveled It's not pleasing to my eye Why can't you do just a little bit I swear you don't even try! Her Response: When I rise in the morning Who cares if I make the bed You think I am disheveled I think it's my style instead When you're so pernickety It sometimes makes me see red Try letting loose a little bit There are layers you can shed I'm not about the makeup Hanging up clothes or other extremes Yet I'm not quite as messy as sometimes I'm sure it seems I do like your sense of order and that predictability sometimes I've even come appreciate that you feel in orderly rhymes So I'll let you be mostly yourself and I'll try to compromise a bit I'll care somewhat a bit more often where many of the little things sit Embrace just a bit of unpredictable For within it a certain order exists Be daring and a bit spontaneous Don't be afraid to shake your fists You'll learn that the special things in life Won't be written on orderly lists All in the end that really matters can be experienced by taking some risks

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 4/21/2016 2:33:00 AM
This is good one Richard, it is the other way around for Peter and I, thank you so much for sharing, loved it. Take care........Vera
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 4/21/2016 7:32:00 AM
Thanks Vera, sometimes each person adds the right amount and it works out just as it should. With you and Peter it seems you have found the balance.
Date: 4/19/2016 2:28:00 PM
Venus/Mars, allegedly. Just like the song, "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that"...meaning: Dishes, laundry, closing toilet seats, pay for dinner, rub my smelly feet. Oh, love...great piece! :D
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 4/19/2016 3:51:00 PM
Thanks Drake, it all adds a bit of spice to this thing we call life.
Date: 4/16/2016 8:42:00 PM
Well done Richard, I enjoyed this immensely. I have a daughter who is ocd. I shall give it to her to read. Cheers, Craig
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Date: 4/16/2016 12:27:00 PM
Ah yes, we women with too much Estrogen and so big time OCD with that nest building chemical. Some of it goes away in Menopause. The you'll be writing, "WHAT A MESS U R"! Ha ha ha. I love the Little Golden Book, "Mr Dog:the dog that belong to himself" (Crispan's Crispian) by Margaret Wise Brown. An EXCELLENY OCD story for kids that deals with independence & order.
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Edlynn Nau
Date: 4/17/2016 12:41:00 AM
OHHH will do! Don't know many guys with the OCD thing but when they have it...I think it is worse! Will peak at "Good Girl"! The title already has my teeth on edge. Ha ha!
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 4/17/2016 12:17:00 AM
Sometimes it's the the guy who's the OCD one. If you read my "Good Girl" poem, her husband has the affliction.
Date: 4/16/2016 10:28:00 AM
Made me smile.....we are all so different. Sometimes the differences drive us to distraction...
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 4/16/2016 10:32:00 AM
In a former relationship that was truly the case.

Book: Shattered Sighs