ex-wife number two, or was it three?

my ex-wife

used to use a white board

and a pointer

to nag me.

she'd set up

a podium

and clip a microphone

to her blouse.

she'd make diagrams of where

my shoes

were left,

or the rings

on the coffee table from

a mug i left behind.

she'd hold up pictures

of the bathroom,

the seat up,

beard follicles

in the sink.

she'd point to the kitchen

on the board

and describe

the trash that wasn't taken

out to the curb,

or the Chinese food containers

sitting in the fridge

for two weeks.

i believe, she'd say showing

the photographs

of the soles of

my shoes, that

those are your muddy

footprints on

the hallway floor.

she missed her calling.

she easily

could have been a CEO,

or a chairman

of the board.