when he was a younger man he read about old men
who wanted wives to take care of them
he thought how selfish that was to want a woman
as a caregiver instead of as a wife to love and be grateful for
now that he’s an old man he still feels the same way
and would never want to burden a girlfriend or a wife
with having to take care of him
he’d rather be alone than subject a woman to be little more than hired help
he’d rather be alone than put a woman through the
agonies and the stresses of being a caregiver wife
and all his life he’s worked out and taken care of himself
with the hope he never becomes so debilitated
that he needs to be taken care of and lose
his lifelong freedom and independence
bob boyd