My drug of choice is food, while my wife
prefers the smoky kiss of cigarettes.
We have a truce now, whereby I don't nag her:
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I adore this - in particular the last verse. Great image and one to which so many of us can relate, I think.
I really like this sonnet, Max. It's almost what I'm trying to do with my broadcast series. Write meter that sounds like free verse when you read it.
Enjoy now and pay later has been the philosophy of man since the fall of Adam. It's brilliant of you to expound it in simple but beautiful verse.