An Unlikely Romance

Unlikely this romance between Miss Cricket and stodgy Buddy Biddle, so stagnant set in his ways, stuck While Cricket eighty-nine years young dances rings around him full of impish energy mischievous antics He proposed but Miss Cricket won't marry him knows better she's outlived countless lovers and won't be tied down She's having way too much fun- so fancy-free no one to boss her, tell her what to do woman on the loose Anyway he's too old for her 'though only eighty-four he can't keep up or begin to understand her And he has hang-ups about sex proper, prim prudish ways appalled at her passionate kisses, advances Waggish grin wild, irreverent she enjoys shocking him with outlandish behavior incorrigible Some days he says he can't take it she's too much gone too far with her pranks- but he gets so lonely without her And 'though he hates to admit it life is dull without her she makes things interesting by being herself (NOTE: Although I listed this as a Free Verse, it is actually in Shadorma form...)