^^^ An Idiom I Wouldn'T Have Guessed In A Month Of Sundays Poem by Tom J. Mariani

Sitting in a coffee shop
Early the other morning
Getting started for my day
I almost dropped my cup

I was reading the paper
About health insurance costs
Stock market dives
And sub-prime credit woes

When one of the guys
In the booth behind me
Leaned over to his friend and quietly said
I guess not expecting me to hear

I swear to God
His exact words were
And I quote
'My dick's fallen off.'

I hadn't been
Paying much attention
To their coversation
Up until then

With my hot coffee
Almost jumping into my lap
My ears perked up to hear
The rest of this tragedy

Obviously his freind
Was not as shocked
As I was
At this news flash

His calm reply was
'Mine too.
It's not that uncommon
At our age after all.'

They were both taking it
Far better than if
It had happened to me
For God's sake

His friend continued
'My doctor tells me
There are several things
That can be done.

For best results He wants to
Run some tests to see
What may have triggered it.'

I wanted to know too
So I could avoid doing
Whatever these guys did
To lose trigger and all

He went on 'They don't just
Throw Viagra at you
The way they used to.
Could be nerve damage,

Or something else.'
- - - Something else - - -
Now the lights
Were finally coming on

Come to think of it
I knew lots of things
That had fallen off lately
Attendance in schools - - - voter turnout

Nothing had actually
Dropped off entirely
It was only
A performance issue

Their use of an idiom
Made me feel like a blockhead
I was relieved to learn their doctors
Had something left to work with