Gordon the Geriatric Snail Conclusion.

Gordon staggered to his lady snail’s door

And lay there, panting, on the floor.

Eventually Gordon rang the bell

And he heard Betty give a yell.

“Just a minute!” Betty warbled,

Although to Gordon it sounded garbled,

As he’d forgotten to put his hearing aid in

And Betty’s aging voice was growing thin.

Gordon straightened up his tie

And when Betty’s door opened he gave a sigh,

As he saw a vision standing there,

With golden highlights in her hair,

Although – and this is no joke –

Her hair was yellowed from cigarette smoke,

But to Gordon’s “good” eye, Betty was his dream girl

And he loved the way her “golden” hair curled.

Unknown to Gordon, Betty had a secret,

And she’d managed for many years to keep it,

But she loved Gordon and felt he should know,

That bits of her were just for show.

In years gone by, Betty was a moll,

She’d been married to a gangster who had called her Doll.

One day in a shoot-out with a rival

Betty’s deception for survival

Had begun when her husband had been out-gunned

And Betty had found herself on the run.

But the biggest secret she was yet to tell?

She was, in fact, a slug in her late husband’s shell!

Gordon was shell-shocked – if you’ll pardon the pun –

And his poor old aging head had spun.

His heart was pounding and his flowers wilted,

He felt as though he’d just been jilted,

So Betty had to sit him down,

And as he sat confused he found,

A love for Betty so pure and true,

That Gordon knew what he had to do.

Gordon declared undying love for Betty

And suggested that they both, from now on, should be

Totally honest with each other,

So he confessed he was actually Gordon’s twin brother.

He was Colin and, when Gordon had died,

He had used Gordon’s cover to lead a happier life,

As Gordon was the twin who’d always been the best

And Colin had taken over Gordon’s success.

Colin and Betty decided it was fate

That they’d met and organised this date,

So they agreed to remain Gordon and Betty

And to keep each other’s secrets.

Gordon and Betty were very soon married

As at their age it could prove fatal had they tarried,

So Gordon watched Betty as she walked up the aisle

And her beauty made Gordon’s heart sing and he smiled,

For he knew theirs was a true love that would never fail,

And they lived out their days as Gordon and Betty Snail.

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