Carol and LAC

A lady and a comrade in arms

like the odd persons at LAC

Carol has tutored many students

flowers with thorns,  a lot’ of beauties

Each budding branch of blooming words

attacked the logic with sure inquiries

Carol explains it candidly calm

and as clear  as a carpenter bee

English, Business, ethics, and drama

Carol tutors with her master’s degree

enlightening and embellishing 

all of her many craving tutees

Twenty some years of well-tilled coaching 

nudging eagerly her growing trees

she now bids you all a fare thee well

I am off to be a retiree!

Nailed them

Doggone nails of wintertide

they split - they rip - no tips

dryness - weather to blame 

these ugly and untidy claws

Wishing for just a bit of lube

with no cracks and  relics - 

my pincers healthy and fit 

Nightly darkness

The damned long leftover
of menopause - wakefulness

still haunts and taunts me

Strategies abound - no blue lights

no drinks - a dry period

not too moved - or exercise lacking

To eat or not to nipple

to heave ho or not to vibrate

with Hamlet's eternal mulling

to be - not since the day

where alertness of the night

made its too clear debut

alas only to be stopped

at the final night's arrival 

A man afar

A man afar - all in flesh not

reddish hues and then some blues

the wherewithal of shattered dreams

fulfilled by oddities and gnats

how can this be my dream?

Hubby will not have sex

I have been dry for umpteen time

so that's why it is a distant reality

- with or without carnality -

that I go on gossamer winged Pegasus

a man afar - in flesh I wish

a difficult and condemned desire

what everyone else will say

but - when men take a mistress

of their wives' lack of drive

That is ok - not for a second

would anyone condemn thus -

whereas if a lady in suburbia

is in need of sex and love

that is a nono - from the pope

from lose friends to the friendly foes

I have no shame - no hang-ups

just a mental image of again

be where I belong in a lover's bed

and getting laid just like that