your cheating heart

while her part time

lover,

the podiatrist

is in the water, she shoots

me a text

and asks how

i'm doing.

it's eighty degrees here,

she crows,

and sends a picture

of the shoreline,

an island off

the coast of the Dominican

Republic.

i can see a large shadow

of a man

in the distance.

a very white whale on land.

the doctor, who's paid

for the trip.

he's coming back now,

she says,

i think Irvin found a watch

or something

with his metal detector.

i'm having my morning

pina colada,

and scrambled eggs

with crab meat.

and a smear of cream cheese

on my bagel.

more later, kisses.