Easy Lovers/ Retired Cigar

by Isabel Brown

 

It was easy for him

To say “I love you”

Because there was 

Nothing to hate

(about her).

 

She got him to stop smoking,

She was patient;

Never yelled at him.

She was nothing like his mother.

 

What he didn’t know,

(and probably wouldn’t 

Love about her)

Is that she asks 

The dizzy ponds

And ditzy moonshine within

For some light in her life.

 

When she stole her husband’s

Car in the middle 

of the night, 

She would sit on the hood

And ask the ditzy moonshine

If the light went 

through her entirely.

 

She saw her husband 

As a bank.

And when the hours were shuteye,

She allowed herself

To be the woman he hated.