> THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX > - Submitted by Rosie Fife > ------------------------------- >Many many years ago when I was twenty three, >I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. > >This widow had a grown-up daughter Who had hair of red. >My father fell in love with her, And soon the two were wed. > >This made my dad my son-in-law And changed my very life. >My daughter was my mother, For she was my father's wife. > >To complicate the matters worse, Although it brought me joy. I > soon became the father Of a bouncing baby boy. > >My little baby then became A brother-in-law to dad. >And so became my uncle, Though it made me very sad. > >For if he was my uncle, Then that also made him brother >To the widow's grown-up daughter Who, of course, was my step-mother. > >Father's wife then had a son, Who kept them on the run. >And he became my grandson, For he was my daughter's son. > >My wife is now my mother's mother And it makes me blue. > Because, although she is my wife, She's my grandma too. > > >If my wife is my grandmother, Then I am her grandchild. >And every time I think of it, It simply drives me wild. > >For now I have become The strangest case you ever saw. >As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!! > >Calvin > >