Tenuous and Precarious

Tenuous and Precarious

Were my guardians,

Precarious and Tenuous,

Two Romans.

My father was Hazardous,

Hazardous

Dear old man,

Three Romans.

There was my brother Spurious,

Spurious Posthumous,

Spurious was Spurious,

Was four Romans.

My husband was Perfidious,

He was Perfidious

Five Romans.

Surreptitious, our son,

Was Surreptitious,

He was six Romans.

Our cat Tedious

Still lives,

Count not Tedious

Yet.

My name is Finis,

Finis, Finis,

I am Finis,

Six, five, four, three, two,

One Roman,

Finis.