Carol Ann Duffy - Mrs Rip Van Winkle lyrics

I sank like a stone into the still, deep waters of late middle age, aching from head to foot I took up food and gave up exercise. It did me good. And while he slept I found some hobbies for myself. Painting. Seeing the sights I'd always dreamed about: The Leaning Tower. The Pyramids. The Taj Mahal. I made a little watercolour of them all. But what was best, what hands-down beat the rest, was saying a none-too-fond farewell to s**. Until the day I came home with this pastel of Niagara and he was sitting up in bed rattling Viagra.