Doogie has proposed to me numerous times--doesn't want to lose me :)! I am so flattered :)! copyrighted/published 2000

“Grandma, take this ring
and make a promise to me.
When you’re not married,
would you then live with me?
I can’t find a girl
who wants to cook or keep house.
Already looking
but the girls think I’m a louse.
Girls want to have fun!
Who’d do my laundry, draw my bath,
tell me a story?
Help me with English and math?”

“I’m truly flattered
though forty-six years older.
These girls are too young
thus give you a cold shoulder.
Everything will change
when you approach your twenties.
Gals will turn and sigh--
and they’ll multiply . . . many.
Not everyone cooks
so just follow your heart, Dear.
A six-year-old’s young
Give yourself a few more years.”

“Grandma,” he smiled sweetly,
“you’ll always be my everything!”