Didn't mind
How unkind
People were to me
Call me fat,
Mock my hat,
Goad relentlessly.
My back's broad,
I've ignored
Critics all my life.
I've got wed,
Now instead
They've to face my wife.
She takes flack,
Bounces back,
Fixes folk with stares.
With one look
Of rebuke,
She can burn off hair.
