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Don’t Change, Babe

“You married the guy you married because you liked him.
Don’t try to change who he is.”
-Rebecca Stay

I heard these words today, babe
And they’re truer than true.
I don’t want you to love pride and prejudice, not really, that’s my job.
One of us has to be the hilarious one in the relationship to help break the ice when we meet new people, and that’s your job.
Nothing in this house would get repaired so neatly without you.
Who else would eat my food, all of it, experiment recipe after experiment recipe, with unfailingly brave taste buds and a gumption to go back for more, even when it’s subpar?
That’s only a pinch of the smattering of all the things that are you,
But don’t change
(except in the self-improvement ways that YOU choose... but that sounds far less poetic and side-note-y so I had to put it in parentheses for it to belong in this poem)
Don’t change
Don’t change
DONT CHANGE
Be you
Cuz that’s who I like in the first place.

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  1. Consilio DélibéréJanuary 29, 2019 at 2:36 PM

    (but that sounds far less poetic and side-note-y so I had to put it in parentheses for it to belong in this poem)

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