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Love Song of a Pessimistic Spouse
Look before you leap. Run with scissors pointed down.
Stay away from drafts, dear, when in your dressing gown.
Careful on the the stairs, don’t hasten your descent.
Don’t turn on the gas without opening the vent.
Put alcohol on cuts and scrapes, mercurochrome on splinters.
Drive slowly during rainstorms and use chains during winters.
Death is always lurking and I fear that you are jaded
thinking life’s perpetual when in fact it’s dated.
There are way too many dangers to sweep us from our feet,
so always look both ways when you cross a busy street.
Remember, dear, you’re not alone. Your “I” turned into “we”
the day that we were married for perpetuity.
Life is a roulette wheel. Take care not to spin it.
Life wouldn’t be much fun, dear, if you were not in it.
Prompt words for today are splinter, jaded, death, descent and look.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Sounds just like my husband!
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He must love you!!!
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It is mutual – but his constant worry and warning stresses me out at times – especially if I am about to drive away on dark, icy roads or something.
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Yes.. I can imagine. Well, actually I did! Which led to the poem.
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“There are way too many dangers to sweep us from our feet” — a perfect line!
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Had quite a bit of that going on in my life a couple of years ago.
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A dose of wisdom cloaked in fun. Brilliant
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;o)
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👍
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I think this gets worse as you get older. Perhaps we all feel more vulnerable. I certainly can relate to this…from both sides. Nicely done!
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