She was to come to our house <br />around five pm to have dinner with us <br />She had specifically requested <br />her Mother's family recipe for pepper steak <br />I had worked up a major appetite <br />over the past several days of fasting on loneliness <br />and was very hungry to see her sweet precious face <br />with those big green eyes and beautiful little lips <br />An angel kissed her on the day she was born <br />and it was then I knew she was to be our only child <br />God doesn't bless people like me that often.... <br />And when he does....you know it. <br />I thought.... <br />So what? Even if she is bringing her new boyfriend <br />like all the others before him <br />I intend to outlive him too <br />And if I don't I'll pay someone to rattle the chains... <br />and haunt his tattooed body...pierced ass out of her life.... <br />Rushing home and trying not to curse at the traffic <br />(God and my wife discourage me of it) <br /> I swung into the driveway.... <br />Only my wife's car was there..... <br />I was early..... <br />Walking in the house my wife shouted <br />overtop of the parrot's squawking <br />'You missed her Honey, she just left <br />I hope you're hungry....she took your dinner <br />and I'm in the mood for a pizza' <br />Daughters.... <br />They can kill you with a smile <br />or starve you to death without one...... <br /> <br /> <br />(2007)<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/not-another-pizza/
