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My guilty secret—
tangled in scrabbling;
Christmas greenery,
baking and sneaking,
a rotten pig head,
chestnuts gone moldy,
transmission fluid,
vacuuming, dusting—
you broke my heart.
After our weeping...
clambering for words...
that could help such news...
hanging up the phone—
I looked around again,
too see only joy.