Love Poem: Ballerina Marries a Bricklayer
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Written by: Donal Mahoney

Ballerina Marries a Bricklayer

Third day on her honeymoon
Sharon asks Butch what it's like 
for a man before he gets married.

A bricklayer by trade, 
and a man of few words,
Butch doesn’t know what to say 

but he knows Sharon has always 
liked to go bowling; in fact, 
that’s how this odd couple met.

So he tries an analogy although 
he doesn’t know it’s an analogy.
From age 12 on, Butch tells her, he

always felt like he had a bowling ball 
in his pants; that was a problem.
He couldn’t find pants to fit.  

When he became a man he joined
bowling leagues, three or four, and
went bowling as often as he could.

Then Butch tells Sharon he met her  
and knew he had to quit bowling  
having found a lane of his own.


Donal Mahoney