I met her at the over 80's trampolining class,
Her tatty leotard flapping loose around her tatty ass.
She was wrinkly, she was balding, though her dentures were
divine,
And the moment that I saw her I just knew she would be mine.
She was smiling, quite beguiling, and she winked her rheumy
eye,
The blue one, not the brown one, just to show she wasn’t shy
Nor backward coming forward when the flirting chips were
down
So I dragged her off the trampoline and took her on the town
I took her down the chippy, stood her chips and curry sauce
While she told me how the trauma of her recent sad divorce
From a big shot city banker, big shot ego, big shot perks,
Had affected her emotions and had rendered her beserk
She had taken with the vapours, hyperventilating hourly
Beating wildly on her bosom, while reflecting, rather sourly
That her life of idle luxury and hedonistic indolence
Had imploded prematurely, when Big-Shot proved polygamous
Her alimony settlement,
she told me through her tears,
Would scarcely keep a gnat in beer, and in the coming years
She faced a life of deprivation, loneliness and squalor,
And shadowy, but disquieting, unimaginable horror.
I listened, disbelieving as she told me of her fate,
Because, a big shot’s trophy wife, she very plainly ain’t.
All her tales of gracious living were quite obviously audacious
fabrications of her fertile mind, most lurid and salacious
Then she turned and looked towards me
and my heart began to race
As the blue eye and the brown eye briefly
focused on my face
In simultaneous unity, then in savage
consternation
Each gazed upon the other one in mutual
admiration.
My doubts of her veracity just
vanished then and there,
'Cos if she was a lying sod, I really didn’t
care,
For her independent eyeballs had entranced
me beyond measure,
And my mind was filled with graphic thoughts of nights of sensual pleasure.
"Oh come with me my rosebud sweet, to
you I will be true
I will restore your days of bliss and
we will bill and coo
Like Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde
And I’ll order some Viagra in, for when
I’m feeling old".
I took her to the Bingo Hall, our
plighted troth to share
With all our geriatric friends, though
no one seemed to care
A monkey’s for our future or about our celebration,
But stayed eyes down, tight lipped and
tense in bingoed concentration.
My darlings eyes were roving, though I
wasn’t sure quite where.
It was difficult to pinpoint, and I really
didn’t care.
But then she said those words that
tied my stomach in a knot,
“Don’t you think that little bingo
caller’s really rather hot?”
My darling bellowed “bingo" when he called out “legs
eleven,”
Which left me feeling peeved because I
only wanted seven.
She danced upon the table as the
caller checked her claim,
Then flashed her boobs quite blatantly to show him she was game.
She was baggy she was saggy, she was all that I desired,
But she dumped me for the toyboy whose lusts she had inspired.
Took her oscillating eyeballs and
pledged them to another,
And left me unrequited, just another
silly bugger.