Deeha

📍 Walmer, Kent, Great Britain

Member since August 2005

retired book-keeper. Moved to seaside Always lived in flats now have my first garden- usually found out there!Like puzzles, crafts
Best hobby - laughing at answers given by contestants in quiz shows and criticising pronunciation of TV presenters


A Story as Wet As Tears by Marge Piercy

Remember the princess who kissed a frog
so he became a prince? At first they danced
all weekend, toasted each other in the morning
with coffee, with champagne at night
nd always with kisses. Perhaps it was
in bed after the first year had ground
around she noticed he had become cold
with her. She had to sleep
with heated pad and down comforter.
His manner grew increasingly chilly
and damp when she entered a room.
He spent his time in water sports,
hydroponics, working on his
insect collection.
Then in the third year
when she said to him one day, dearest,
are you taking your vitamins daily,
you are look quite green, he leaped
away from her.
Finally on their fifth
anniversary she confronted him:
'My precious, don't you love me any
more? He replied 'Rivet rivet'.
Though courtship turns frogs into princes,
marriage turns them quietly back.