the spouse of a lifetime
departed
it's frigid and it will snow
and so we will not go
sitting
in this place
pretty pictures all around
laundry needing folded
groceries to be bought
dinner prepared
tonight to talk
a huge bouquet of a day
not so long ago
yet I can't remember
obedient to the work before me
creating lovely little beckonings to marriages
just beyond these winter days
while in my basement a humble man
'snakes' sewage lines of this almost century year old home
that has housed safely soundly marriage upon marriage
children family
home
cleaning up after who knows what's been flushed and dumped
into the greatest invention of all time
backed up
in my nose
seeping into all that has been salvaged
all that has been known
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