things happen

your neighbor,
two doors up,
a shaggy blonde with long
nails, who works at
the strip
club
is pregnant.
she says whoops,
when you see her out
in the parking lot
washing
her lexus
in a string bikini.
things happen, she says,
shrugging and
touching her belly
with both hands,
somehow explaining
the entire process
of continuing the species
with two
words.