A BRASS RING

I caught a brass ring

While riding the merriness of

My life

In the person of Denise Means

From Pleasant Valley, Maryland;

In the conduitous way of

 life

Through natural selection

Of associations

So did many others catch “my” brass ring

In Waukesha and elsewhere

Those folks know who they are

Some think I don't deserve Dee in

my life

And maybe just a few think

They do not deserve Dee

Who is wholesome and pure

To gracefully bear their burdens

With bibles and mops

Year after year,

 With

Her life.

As to My Life and the Dixes'

Let no one imagine that

- except for frail slips -

We take our brass ring

For granted.

 v.Z. 

12-16-11