I met him by the roadside

Standing tall with shoulders wide

He smoked a fag I couldn’t abide

And asked me if I’d come inside

A dull linguistic polymer

A tiresome interlocutor

Who cares when promiscuity

Rears its head, it grins and tempts me

 

Unknown and hardly trusting

Inside the room we fornicate in

In and out, in and out

Breathing, fucking, no room for doubt

Of where this cataclysm ends

Hardly lovers, barely friends

Do YOU know that his husband sends

His reassuring love?

 

15 minutes later he shouts

Loose, internally hollowed out

That thudding loud ventricular sound

Shudders inside me, up and down

The empty shell that’s used and tossed

The heart left in a beatless frost

An empty gaping echo chamber

Nothing left to save for later

That quick repeating motion complete

He’s gone, I’m here beneath the sheet

With only silence left to speak

Of selfish infidelity

Unbeknownst to me.