Family Ties

We are tall 
and short, 

athletes and 
intellectuals, 

young in body or

at least,
at heart. 

We have blue 
green 
brown 
gray eyes

and rose-colored glasses. 

In my family

you don't have to choose.

You get the best
of both worlds, 

of all possible worlds:

pizza and pretzels, 

beer and wine, 

astrophysics and karaoke,

German lullabies
and Italian vacations.