Old Linda Poem by Francis Duggan

Old Linda is a tough old bird her moods are often black
And she never leaves the chance go by for to bad mouth her husband Jack
To anyone prepared to listen to her she will run him down
As if she were the 'hardest done by' ever in the town.

For forty years and that's a lengthy span they lived as man and wife
And forty years is a decade more than half of the average human life
Their marriage often stormy as they argued most of the time
And their children now have teenage children and are well beyond their prime.

Jack left her for a woman in her early fifties Linda is sixty five
Yet forty years a long time for such a marriage to survive
And though he left her a few years ago her bitterness towards him lives on
Yet one would have thought she would have felt happy for to see him from her life gone.

For Jack is far from special and he's not free of taint
And anyone who know him well will tell you he's not a saint
He had his women on the side and of his affairs she knew
And any love between them had long died and to her he was untrue.

The bitterness she feels towards Jack cause her to mistrust
men
But as long as she feels this way new admirers she won't win
And to anyone prepared to listen to her Jack her unfaithful
ex she will run down
As if she were the hardest done by ever in the town.