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Unhappy Unpleasant Husband Forgets
to Microwave His Coffee: A Parable
the half-insolent half-comforting hums of monday morning suburb traffic drifting
limp
over near-mirror houses
sip at the warm coffee cream and sugar stuff of my dwindling patience
with that indifferent caustic casual air of your cousins care of your pet fucking fish
on that weekend away
with the frigid calculation youd give the toilet paper roll
determining how much more is too much
while I wait for the phone to ring
unsure if the hum has a smell or if that smell is the bullshit
Im sure youve prepared pedantically with prudence
knowing my coffee would cool and wanting me to taste the chill metallic twinge
when you ring
the better to make sure you enrage the better to underline the smirking
stupid senseless
droning defense youll make seem my insult. I suspect we should get a divorce.
a big leisurely lump of cloud rolls into the sunlight to languish
grinning lazily into the heat
a lolling tongue of mist cat-like sprawling to catch
last lingering drops of morning
with the urgent burdensome haste of pleasure
chased for pleasures sake the way you bake your pies the unaffordable taste
of cherry the unemployable and cloying
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