The strangest thing I’ve ever seen?
The way she chops a nectarine.
Just one more case where she and I,
Though lovers, don’t see eye to eye.
She’ll open doors and windows wide;
I like to keep the cool inside.
There is no “lukewarm” food I’m told –
It’s piping hot or it’s just cold.
It’s not a problem when we eat
(There is a microwave to heat
The vegetables and other stuff
That I had thought were warm enough)
But come to water, then we see
She views the world quite differently.
In spring on hot and cloudless days,
She finds a hundred different ways
Of putting off a swimming trip:
It’s May before her first quick dip.
The shower water must have got
Near boiling point before it’s “hot”.
Thank goodness then for solar power,
She lets it run for half an hour
Before she does at last get in
Lest frostbite mar her nice brown skin.
But is it really quite so grim?
He learns from her and she from him –
I’ve said a million times of late
She often does exaggerate.
