With our separation in progress,
I feel the need to digress,
And the subject of marriage address,
Before I leave this address.
I think my conclusion sound,
And not out of bound,
With no need to turn around,
When my wife is around.
When one partner becomes a willing slave,
The other half will one day decide it is time to cave,
And do without a slave every time they want to shave,
Or offer to help help clean up the cave,
Or cook a meal by themselves to give their slave time to rave,
As sooner or later the novelty of having a slave,
That is to busy for time to rave,
Will no longer be something they want to brave,
And if someone more equal in the neighborhood,
too decides it is time to be brave?
So, if you think someone is starting to be your slave,
Be brave,
And let your feelings permeate the cave,
Leaving no room for doubt that your marriage you want to save,
And you want them as your equal in the cave,
As sooner or later there will be no room in your life for a slave,
Even a good looking willing slave.
HARD TO SWALLOW
Last summer I bought an ice cream
But although the taste was supreme
While eating my cornet
I swallowed a hornet
When I think about it I scream
I have a doctor named Bill
I visit when feeling ill
He prescribes lotions
Copious pills and potions
That made me feel worse still
You were my one and only drug bottled
The label said 5000 miligrams of volite
The suggested use was choke one down
with a side of frustration to follow
The warning label said don't take with alcohol
or it'll send you into a mind numbing wallow
Taken daily it'll help you overall
This relationship won't feel so hollow
I'll have to take one again tomorrow
Hard to Swallow and Follow
Suppose what they tried was translucent
And we never, ever say where it went
Was in a form that became free-flowing
Skirt was too short so she started showing.
Some thought she was impeccable and adorable
While Republicans did say she was deplorable
What if in the middle it were to leave us
Could we really learn how to be a leftist.
Then there are those always the rightest
You can tell because they are up tightest
And if you do find this difficult to swallow
Will also have a hard time trying to follow.
Sounds like an adequate way to describe
the whole race myself. How about you?
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NC