Tell me, what is a middle-age crisis?
Is it suffered by ALL women folk?
Did some medical freak
With his tongue in his cheek
Make the whole thing up just as a joke?

And do men have a middle-age crisis?
It is something I'd sure like to know.
What us women go through -
Men should have some pain, too.
Is their threshold of pain just too low?

Tell me, how does one treat mid-life crisis?
Just ignore it and it passes by?
When you get a hot flash
Do you make a mad dash
For the door and hope no one asks why?

Just how long do you have mid-life crisis?
Till you're fifty or sixty or more?
Do you start gaining weight?
Does your love life abate?
Do your ankles swell up and get sore?

I've decided to skip mid-life crisis.
I'm too busy and don't have the time.
So, you women out there
While you're tearing your hair,
Think of me living life at its prime!

by Mariane Holbrook