THE DIVORCE
Body, you and I must part.
Our short affair is over.
I knew, I knew from the start
you would prove a faithless lover.
I took as a matter of course,
though I did not dwell on it,
our love would end in divorce.
So I was not surprised a bit
by the first signs of neglect:
suspicious colds in the head,
apologetic aches,
a sudden chill in bed.
But it took your breathing hard
at a voice on the telephone,
to make me doubt your heart
skipped beats for me alone.
At last I caught you out,
and you, so hard to please,
brought at a single stroke
trembling to your knees.
And now at fever pitch,
and begging for your whore! --
as if I were keeping you!
Well, what are you waiting for?
Go! and don't come back!
It's time already. Go!
And you'll soon be in the sack --
As I only too well know.
(Jerusalem Review II, 20)
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