All's Well That Ends Well
Killer Couple, According to Dr. Seus
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His femme pro temps was a femme fatale, she,
Who worked his worth until worthless was he;
Said she in a tone that baited seductively,
"I'll pay you back in love if you will wait here for me."
***
He remained, you see, for that enchantress, his she,
And bided his time for that temptress, did he;
But the calendar pages turned unrelentingly,
His years sans wages compounding cumulatively.
***
Then lo! and behold, the villainess returned fundless,
Having taken and lost his hard-earned abundance.
And she asked for some more, if you can believe it,
So he reached in his pocket, as if to retrieve it.
***
He was crumpled and wizened but all the more wiser
Pretended to fawn, but did, he, despise her;
He found the papers under legal purview
And retrieved, did he for her, the bill that was due.
***
She grumbled and seethed and reached in her purse
Too foresighted, was he, to ride in a hearse
She thought she had trumped him, but he outgunned her, moribundly
And now he's made it all back with a comeback GoFundMe.
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Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned church in Hull, MA. (Phase I was New Orleans and everything that entails. Hippocampus, behave!
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Comments (2)
Nice, gritty and sing-song. All's Well that Ends Well is perhaps Shakespeare's worst play...I don't recommend it!
Sorry I dropped an "s" in Seuss. Can't edit titles.