Thursday, December 21, 2023

walking on eggshells

when the ex wife
woke up
one morning and suggested
that i should
get a life
insurance policy
of a million dollars, it
made me nervous.
i started to let
the dog taste all the food
she had cooked
before i ate it,
i drank nothing from
an open container.
i looked under the car
to check the brake lines
for leaks
or cuts.
i hid the aspirin bottle,
and monitored
the gas and carbon
monoxide
when she wasn't home.
i was crazily suspicious
and walking
on eggshells
when i came home early
from work
one day
and she was screwing 
a silencer
on her new
shiny handgun.

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