Old Sweat Pants

when they first met,
he wore pressed shirts and clean Dockers;
she wore mascara and high heels.
they sprayed Binaca in their mouths
before they met for dinner
and brushed their teeth before
kissing in the morning.
after a few years together, the dockers
no longer fit (he ate too many cookies),
the high heels had been given away,
they competed in farting contests after
eating too many beans for dinner,
he took to wearing her white
reading glasses with plastic flowers on
the hinges and wore dirty sweat pants to dinner.
she no longer wore high heels,
did not do a very good job of coloring
over her increasing strands of grey hair,
and only brushed her
teeth religiously when she had
to go see the dentist.
they were much happier together.