Having Things Due Is Doo Doo
Payments on my credit card and rent are always due.
Power, water, gas, and those horrendous phone bills too.
Borrowed books I’ve not yet read soon are coming due.
Maybe I can find some time to read them in the loo.
Also it’s that time of year when all of us are due
for a visit to a store with cheap shots for the flu!
My mammograms and dental visits are LONG overdue.
I cannot afford them yet. What’s a girl to do?
And Mr. Doctor, why must I wait so long just for you?
I think some respect for me, your patient, sure is due!
Thinking of the money from my savings I withdrew
just to make it through this year has really made me blue.
Gee, if I could have one wish and have that wish come true,
I would wish to live my life as one big well-to-do!
But there’s one thing that’s NOT due for which I need not stew.
Thank goodness that I’m too old now to have a baby due!
For Paula Swanson's
How Due You Dew Poetry Contest
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2011
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