Poem Written While Driving to the State Fair on my Wife's Birthday

You told me to watch for deer

but all I wanna do is watch you

 

How is it

after 16 years

you look the way you do

and I look like the tail pipe

of a busted Dodge Charger

on a small township U.P. lawn

 

We went from Parliament Lights at 1 AM

to having a kid to

keeping a food diary and calling it a night at 9

cus the opening act took too long to

get on the stage 

and the apps made our tummies hurt

 

and we'll go further down that road

looking out for deer

and turkeys as dumb as the day is long

till I look like the Crypt Keeper 

and you look like my nurse 

and we crash

because

I just can't stop lookin'

and writing this for you

 

© 2025 Lee Kitzis