Walk this way

I am grateful for family jokes, and thankful to Mel Brooks movies for this being a family joke.  It helps keep things lighter.

As I slipped and slid in the mud and drizzle

Along Roosevelt Road,

I thought about

One of our family jokes:

Walk this way.

We say it at home.

We say it

When we trip over the kneeler

In church.

We say it whenever we feel

Particularly klutzy.

Yesterday I said it

To no one in particular

As I could not figure out

Where the button was

On the automatic,

Easy-open,

Umbrella.

Then I said it

As I slipped and slid

In the wet grass

Where sidewalks

Should have been.

Walk this way

I said,

To the cars as they splashed by

Barely two feet away.

Walk this way.