27.01.03 - 9:46 a.m.

even the enigmatics have a past - the bowtie
wearers, the puppet theater masters, shadowbox
artists that ride mint green lambrettas have
exwives to trip on and needle for details.
she painted a watercolor of you in the seventies,
a navy photographer sending home sweet nothings
peppered with drawings of castles, taking a lover.
she never faulted you for a thing, just said that
you painted your sons toenails and never
really loved her.