There’s the man who wooed and married you

He neglected to mention that he already had a wife

There’s the former spouse

You called him when you had a flat in the rain

He told you to call triple A

The man who couldn’t

The man who wouldn’t

It took until age forty

To master saying no to the man with whom you shouldn’t

But now you are a wise assed woman

Husband number one left you with a son to raise

Husband number two said gracias for the green card

Husband number three

You married him twice

The first time he crushed your heart in a vice

The second time he went dancing with your best friend

She got the diamond ring he promised you

All those years

That’s how you became a wise assed woman

All those years

Life slipped by

The clock ticked

Youth fell away

You look at the photo

You on the beach at twenty five

Effortlessly beautiful

Destined to be unloved

Look in the mirror at your posterior

Your derrière, your anterior

How over the years did it expand so

Fifty years will do that

That’s life my dear

You have grace

You have beauty

And now you have heft

Because you are a wise assed woman