Tuesday, December 16, 2025

checking up on the old ball and chain

out for a drink
or two,
my friend Jimmy
tells
me that he likes to look up
his old
girlfriends
and wives
to see how badly they are doing.
to see if
they've aged
poorly,
gotten fat and are now
living
in some hell hole.
it brings me pleasure, he says,
to see what's
happening to them
without me.
i tell him he has shaving
cream in
his ear,
and that his zipper
is half mast,
and it's okay, i'll once more
get the tab.

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