He'll make a fool
out of you,
just another tool.
You change your hair,
forget he's the only one
to hold your stare.

Alone on a chair,
chaotic bed.
He'll fill your head
with pretty nothings
until you are fed.
Crash to the ground,
you're the only one
to hear it's deathly sound.

A charming pacifist,
you'll meet him on a list.
He'll steal your name,
play pretend it doesn't
make him just the same.

All the castles he's built around heads,
they'll come crashing down.
I would never frown.
Pick one or two up,
leave that dead town
finally.

She's younger than me
She's just eighty-three
but you'd think she's
a hundred and ten.
She talks of her aches.
She talks of her pains.
Then she tells them all over again.

She wins all the "prizes"..
She likes to advise us
on all the troubles she has
like sun-burning too easy
and how she gets queasy,
flat feet, sinus problems and gas!

She has all of these plus
she's weak in the knees.
Her heart sometimes beats out of time.
The bugs like her better.
She says they all get her.
Her bites swell the size of a dime.
(Actually, a quarter but it didn't rhyme.)

She has trouble sleeping.
She has trouble eating.
Some foods they give her the hives.
To hear when she tells it,
she isn't so well. It's a wonder
she's even alive.

Too healthy am I.
I can't even try
to keep up with the conversation.
The ante's too much.
Her ails I can't touch.
I've not even had operations.

She has, you know, from
her head to her toe.
They've taken out pieces and parts.
She keeps them in jars.
They're never too far
to be shown at a game of hearts.

When she whips out her stones
and pieces of bones,
we just smile and then nod our heads.
She knows she's the winner and
we're just beginners.
"Hey, can't we talk about
the weather instead?"