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Watching Bravo Reunion Shows

John F. Buckley

The scene is like teeth scraping
corduroy. This has been the most grueling
friendship since my last divorce. My wife’s watching
the neighbors fight in the living room,
dunking their donuts in one another’s martinis.
She is in a place where she wants a happy homelife
instead of spiraling downward. The nursery-school
dissonance splashes the wall paneling,
leaves dripping silhouettes of marionettes
slackjawed and gabbling. Never never
never did she come to me and offer an apology.
I can feel my pulse in my molars.
Things are actually coming to a head
with the second house. I’m the one
afraid of Virginia Woolf tonight.

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