This is a poem inspired by a song that was coming on the radio while I was driving home from a golf tournament. For some reason, the song which I had never heard before started to bug me. Even before I had heard one line, or knew what it was about, it started to get under my skin. Turns out that I just was not in the mood.
Tender Nothings
My wife just had a heart attack
She's passed out on the bed
It may be that she's never heard
The words that I just said
She's heard me say a lot of things
Some bordering on the lewd
But she has never heard me say
"NO THANKS... not in the mood!"
