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the note

by Ann Foxglove

"Did you have a good fuck?"
The note lies in the kitchen bin.
I've just come in from a date with the new man.

To me, our marriage was long over.
But the jagged writing told
this was not the case for you.
And, if I did have a good screw
I can't remember.

The pain held in that note
is with me still, thirty years on.

And your kindness and your dignity
when you cha...

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