Clothesline Deceit

We all know my obsession with clothes lines. I found this poem the other day and just couldn't resist. I dedicate it to Fred as today is Fred's birthday and she is 26. For those of you who don't remember Fred  read this

Happy Birthday Fred and many more: ) 

CLOTHESLINE DECEIT

by Marilyn K. Walker

Miss Polly was a spinster

who lived a sheltered life

until a former classmate

asked her to be his wife.

But after they were married

she realized he was lewd.

It truly shocked Miss Polly

to know that he slept nude.

She wondered if her neighbors

observed her husband’s ways

and noticed no pajamas

were hung on laundry days.

Miss Polly went out shopping

and had a plan in mind!

She’d buy some men’s pajamas-

the brightest she could find.

Now when she meets her neighbors

she holds her head up high

just knowing those pajamas

hang on her line to dry.