Monday, January 4, 2021

you ask me why it didn't last

she didn't drink
or smoke.
she didn't eat red meat.
no sweets.
she didn't
like the beach
or the carnival.
she had no interest
in fiction
in poetry
or essays, or the news
paper.
she wasn't fond of
cats,
or jokes.
or laughs.
she couldn't cook
and never
cleaned.
she ruined every holiday
as quick as
they came.
she never saw a bridge
she didn't
want to jump off of.
she was bad with money.
movies weren't her
thing either.
no tv.
no staying up late.
no riding a bike,
or dancing the night
away.
making love was a thing
of the past.
and you ask me why 
it didn't last.

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