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I've Always Enjoyed Her Sense of Humor

by Gerald Locklin

She's an old friend
And I don't see her very often,
But she has a way of turning up

When I'm talking to a girl I've just met,

And she will invariably storm up to us

And confront me with, "where is the child support check?!"

Then turn on her heel and storm from the room,
Leaving me to make inadequate explanations.

"I've Always Enjoyed Her Sense of Humor" by Gerald Locklin, from Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems. © World Parade Books, 2008.