Three years, easily
equals ten thousand diapers.
One mother times
One year’s rapid decline
equals one hundred diapers.
One wife times
Two years' gradual decline
equals one hundred-fifty diapers.
I did not know
Love could be measured
by wiping shit off of bottoms.
Will I have the courage
Necessary to lie back,
and have it done for me?
My brother (Timothy) often says - not quite as elegantly - to his four children, "I wiped yours. You're wiping mine."
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