Ballerina Marries A Bricklayer Poem by Donal Mahoney

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