did you think I ever cared your wife
was not the one?
I cared - only that you wasted fire
on a dreamless suit

stopped coming to my room on
whispered passion
breathing slowly, free for hours
she called your bluff so

you left me then

dead children wailed in silent
graves. I wondered if
they lived in glass garage jars
perfect - but for life

I did not know their cries as mine
but your wife, she said
when gin ran out and grief was high
on my soundless pain

you were gone from me

taking heaven with you, killing god
just to be sure
daughter understood how dead
life was

I always understood
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*image: Jean-Paul Avisse
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