Stan and his mistress

Stan is feeling low and sad

His good wife Mary has gone mad.

Stan is feeling Guilt and Fear

He knows now that it’s wrong to leer.

Stan has been a naughty boy.

He let a mistress with him toy.

But Mary found his mobile phone

When she was at home all alone.

His mistress lived next door to him

Which made it simpler for to sin.

While Mary worked hard teaching maths

The lovers lingered in the bath.

He was meant to do the chores.

Chopping wood and painting doors.

He had to bake the cakes and bread.

So  the household would be fed.

But Stan into temptation fell,

As did his neighbour Anne as well.

They enjoyed  so many hugs,

And lying down on woolly rugs.

So, Mary, she was most appalled.

She screamed and yelled and cried and bawled.

So Stan has gone for therapy.

What sort of changes will he see?

He lies down on a long brown couch.

Behind which the therapist crouches.

He says to Stan,”now let it rip.

I want your mouth to be unzipped.”

Was your mother kind to you?

Did she train you on the loo?

Did she wash yopur mouth with soap?

Was she prone to sulk and mope?

Stan thought this man verbose.

So he kept his own lips close.

When he got the bill to pay.

He told the therapist,”No way”

“You have been the one to talk.”

He glared like a crusading hawk.

“You should pay me,not I pay you!”

What was his therapist going to do!

“I’m glad you’ve managed to speak out.

Your sanity is not in doubt.

I’ll tear the bill up for this week.

And next time I want you to speak.”

So Stan unleashed his every thought

Just as the Freudians once had taught.

I don’t know how he feels inside.

But language is a useful guide.

And as he sees his therapist,

His mistress is not greatly missed.

He  wanted more attention,

So now his bad ways are all gone!

He got a part time job as well.

So he could pay his therapy bill.

Mary is still teaching maths.

And now it’s she with whom he baths!

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He helped the homeless, addicts and the scared

My many sins in marriage were disclosed
He taught me Chess,I won, he was  annoyed
Yet did not tell me till his dying days
He must have sulked to cover his dismay
All at once he  poured out my mistakes
I was too brilliant for a  man unwise
Who married me because I had blue eyes 
I knew the villain when we watched TV
Now I see the true villain was me.
Yet he seemed  most  learned as he spoke
His weighed his words that helped so many folk
While I struggled teaching maths, it’s hard
He helped the homeless, addicts and the scared
Then I cooked his dinner, fed the cat
Fit for nothing much,I   darned my hat
Now all that I assumed for forty years
Hid his anger when I thought he cared
Was our love a play within a play
I held  his dearest hands, he passed away

Mother’s song

He smiled at me  so broadly I was mazed
He thought I was his mother,not the case
He asked me where I’d spent my honeymoon
I  don’t know.Oh Scarborough,flowers bloomed
Why  did your boss sport a wooden leg?
He got in  in the war,  he lost his head
Mother you look stunning, on he  smiled
Where is Dad? I’m sorry, he has died
So why have you not married since that time?
He gazed on me  entranced, and not by rhymes
No-one ‘s asked me yet;he seemed surprised
Never mind that, is the washing dry?
Mother,  now you ‘re blessed with big  blue eyes
I felt so sad,I  would have sobbed and cried.
If it made him happy,was I  wrong
Being like a mother till  the end?

Marriage holds a  breeze but not a storm

Would you be more gentle,dear,I cried
She’d pushed my head as if  it were a stone
I only want my hair washed, not to die

And BTW why are you using Tide
Shampoo is much kinder,on I moaned~
Could you be more gentle,dear,I cried

I ‘m glad you don’t  use Ariel,  suicide
She wrote about the Moon, her  love and home
Did she want her hair washed, not to die?

In Spain she  bought sardines so she could fry
In the wilds of Devon left alone
Ted was  getting famous, not his wife

I re-enter time ,I let  her dye
My hair is purple   rinsed  from  the  white foam
Did Plath want her hair  dyed, not to die?

Marriage holds a  breeze but not a storm
The  rose had pricked her finger with its thorn
Could we be more gentle if we tried?
We all need human love or we will  die

He kissed my hand,I knew what was afoot

He kissed my hand,I knew what was afoot
He followed me on Facebook every day
I get these butterflies inside my gut

I never fall in love with porn or smut
Or men who ask me out to make me pay
He kissed my hand, I knew what was afoot

We went to Lyons cafe, it was shut
We  fried an egg and ate it in our way
I got those butterflies inside my gut

I could  have made it funny, should I flirt?
He ate my  buttered toast like it was prey
He kissed my hand, I knew what was afoot

I did not lead him on, for it might hurt
He had to be the one who led the way
I got no butterflies inside my gut

He kissed my hand and asked me to a Play
He wrote it all himself, my fiance!
He kissed my hand,I knew what was afoot
I tell a lie, I never said I would.

 

 

 

 

In my heart I still  yearn for his gaze

In my heart I still  yearn for his gaze
In which I   lived, felt real and was engaged
Critical,  he did not always praise.
In my soul I still  desire his gaze
Driving through  bright summer  fields  all day
Flowers exquisite   yanked me from my page
In my heart I still  yearn for his gaze
In which I   lived, felt real , and  was engaged