A Response to the
Question “Have You Told Her Yet?”
Her front door clicks
shut.
He'd hoped for a
hinge-rattling slam
shaking the adjacent
window in its frame
(was it too much to ask
to shatter?)
but the door is
fire-safe
a pneumatic arm closes
it silently
reducing his dramatic
exit
of “I'm leaving you
forever,”
to the apologetic
murmur
“I'll see myself
out.”
At the bottom of the
path he kicks the gate
stubs his toe of the
wall and curses.
One look back at the
house and a shout
“You'll not get that
divorce.
I'll stay with the wife
now”
but she has no response
while Eastenders is on.
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