If I were a word (hyphens are acceptable)
Take my life at the age of five
And using only one word to describe it
That word would be 'Happy'
I was a happy child
Moving on from five to ten, 'Amen'
I discovered little girls
Then comes ten to the age of fifteen 'Please'
Was what I said to all the lovely little ladies
Entering my late teens, 'Holy-cow'
But Granny warned me not to buy it
Went off to war at the age of Twenty, 'Holy-crap'
What a shithole
Married for the first time I was only Twenty-five
It was a year and an exception to my own rules
'Deaf, Dumb, Blind and Stupid'
She was both beautiful and ugly
A virgin whore of immeasurable consequences
And I paid dearly for my mistake, okay....'Divorce'
Between Thirty and Forty call me ' Savvy'
I made lots of money and my new wife and I were 'Happy'
God brought us together and two became three
He gave us 'Joy' in the birth of our daughter
Call me 'Joyful' when she called me 'Daddy'
Now I'm old and dying
Just as I always knew I would
And rather than go out with an epitaph as long as the Nile
I think it should be more than adequate to call me 'Dead-Ted'
Alas poor guy....I loved them all.....

2007 © T Sheridan

Ted Sheridan

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