Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 13.59.252.174
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
I like reminders, so I email my husband every day from work: Remind me to bring chili tomorrow, wear a silly hat on Tuesday, bring a baby shower card on Thursday. The dog’s appointment is at 9. Please give the cat his pill at 11. This amuses me, because it was not always this way. As a matter of fact, the first few years of marriage, Actually, the first thirty years of marriage, He did not even make his own sandwich; I had no idea he could. Now he’s the only one the grandchildren will allow to let make their omelets. “No thanks, Grandma,” they’ll say. “We’ll wait for grandpa.” “He’s in Topeka, it’ll be two hours.” They nod. “That’s okay.” My husband has become the perfect husband after a few years of me Figuring out that it was okay to let go and stop doing things I hated doing. I have stopped dusting, cleaning, and cooking, and we have others do the mowing now. It’d be easier if I wasn’t perpetually planting trees, bushes, and flower gardens, but I get a perverted pleasure in seeing how long it takes them to go around all my mazes. We had a cleaning person, but we let her go because we didn’t think we should pay someone Twice as much as I make at work, especially when she pretend cleans with one hand, a perpetual cell phone in the other. What little cleaning I do is angry cleaning, in a furious frenzy, and I have to invite company to spend the night, in order to inspire me to do that. I invite company two times a year, and I’m in a horrible, mean mood as I’m cleaning for them. My man overlooks this big, bad, awful side. He has become the perfect man for me. In actuality, he always was.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required