I Wandered Lonely As A...Weirdo?

[realexplodingcat]

My wife...no it's not a costume. She wears it everyday

As my wife wandered slowly
through the last city market,
she wore cape and hat
as she looked for a bargain.

Children staring wide-eyed
came running to look
with "Wow's" on their lips
as their parents' heads shook.

As my wife wandered slowly
past the man selling cider
he continued to talk,
as his eyes just grew wider,

to a customer there
with a questioning itch,
"I use Roma and Braeburn
and look there's a witch!"

As my wife wandered slowly
past the gnarled old man,
he froze and gasped "Nice!"
and reached out a hand.

He stared with such shock,
as if out of the ground
had crawled his dead wife to say:
"Leave the toilet seat down!"

As my wife wandered slowly
through the last city market
I sighed and walked with her
to the car where we parked it.

Comments

[jb98.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pic, beautiful verse, beautiful people :)

Very moving. Y'all rock!

[ex-carnaval-619.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! I can picture it clearly in my head! Yay, now I get to read the musings of Tom (Thom?) ;) too!

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Yes, Tom. I don't post often...as much as I intend to...

I don't know I never added you sooner!

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

A lovely picture and fun poem. day- making. :)

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

...and they think it's just a halloween thing...*pshaw*

y'all are so cute. :)

[moonphyre.livejournal.com]

haha. sweet poem :)

[risabe.livejournal.com]

Bravo.

[ismene.livejournal.com]

That's such a cute picture. I think I need to get myself a witch hat. Or maybe a pirate hat.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Lovely poem...and I WANT THAT HAT!

[silent-muse.livejournal.com]

That was simply fantastic. Every day the two of you renew my faith in love. . .

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

It's all an act. We kick each other when no one is looking and rub leftover food on the head of the one who falls asleep first...that's usually me.

Seriously, the key is to have a good sense of humor regarding ourselves and the relationship. I'm sure there are a lot of other keys too...and a lot of luck (or fate) in the beginning when we found each other.

Unrelated thing...Jos has had the SubShock sampler CD on repeat all day, just so she can here Solieri over and over again. Good to know she not a fan simply by virtue of being married to me.

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

You'll have to visit again. All kinds of crazy hats at the place she bought that.

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Perhaps both. I think a pirate ship full of witches would the scourge of the seas.

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Maybe next time I'll do an encore :)

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I enjoyed writing it.

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Great. Glad to hear I made a day!

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Wait 'til they see the black christmas tree with the string of bat shaped lights.

[silent-muse.livejournal.com]

*nods* I guess it's like that line from Fiddler on the Rooof - "We figure when good fortune favors two such [folk], it stands to reason we deserve it too!" It just makes me think all of us can have a life like you two have, if we try. . .

And things like people listening to "Salieri" over and over again are little tidbits of my day I both enjoy and cannot believe. One day I'm going to be reading a random LJ and someone will have quoted a song I wrote in their post, and at that point I'll either grin from ear to ear or laugh my ass off. . .

[ismene.livejournal.com]

It would indeed.

[sophy.livejournal.com]

Fantastic. :)

[kateo.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Planning to set it to music any time soon?

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Possibly! I wouldn't be the first of my poems to make it into song :)