'You can't cry over spilled milk'
my mother always said.
'Life's not a piece of cake'
she hammered in my head!
'That's the way it goes,
' the way the cookie crumbles'
My mother saved her idioms
for my idiotic troubles..
Once upon a toilet wall
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/idioms-for-an-idiot/
