Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Weighing Options

New Year's Day, the wife did remind

Me that I was still overweight.

She made the joke that was not kind

Of how last New Year  I did state

I would lose twenty pounds for sure,

Year end, only thirty to go.

She smiled, and I resented her

Telling me a fact I did know.

Then she had the gall to say that

I needed to way up my goal

Of pounds to lose of excess fat,

Resolve to get more weight control.

Remove more excess fat, of course

I resolve to get a divorce.