a woman is beautiful and keenly sighted, yet blind, crafty and cruel,
simple and kind.
she'll call him a king, then make him a clown,
raise him on a pedestal, then knock him flat down.

she'll run away from him and never comes back.
but, if he runs away, she'll be on his tracks.

at times she'll be vengeful, merry and sad,
she'll hate you like poison, and love you like mad.

-reader's letter in a 2001 men's health magazine.