LIVING AS ONE?

LIVING AS ONE?

 

Discussion with a neighbor

Wasn’t copacetic…

Reminded me of living

With a non-diabetic.

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The neighbor served key lime pie

One member of a pair….

So he could go on “living”,

That sounded so unfair!

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The other one got nothing,

Nor even dessert at all…

Is it any wonder diabetics’

Will powers often fall?

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My Mom and Dad were such a pair,

He was and she was not…

His exercise machine sat next

To where she kept candy bars in stock.

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The freezer kept them extra cold,

Every session he’d sneak one or two…

She wondered why his sugar stayed high

‘Til the truth came suddenly to…!

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She tried different hiding places

And he’d figure them out quick…

She’d notice the supply took a nose dive

And her husband got real sick.

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With my wife and I, we’re both

Diabetics…inequality is less there…

But I will bring home the salty snacks,

The edema makes that choice less fair.

 

–Jonathan Caswell