Pay Attention Before It’s Too Late

Bottle of lotion, bottle
Of soap—eye them thinking don’t

Mix them up, don’t wash your face
With the lotion. That’s nothing

Much, though. Recall the anecdote
Loved by your long-deceased spouse

About the time her roommate
From Australia mistook cream

For some malady—itching,
Yeast, hemorrhoids, one of those—

For a tube of toothpaste. Yuck.
Consider how much better,

How much funnier your spouse
Was telling stories like those.