I AM MY OWN GRANDPA
Author Unknown
Many, many years ago
When I was twenty-three
I got married to a widow
Pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
With flowing hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
Now my daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandma, too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am ...
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My mother told me that she had met this dashing, very interesting, charismatic man, he has a very eccentric bearing, an eccentric way of dressing but in a positive sense, an original sort of appearance. He came from America, where he practised psychiatry, he decided to come back and spend his retirement in the old country. 