Thursday, July 14, 2011

cancer

The word inspires dread in most, but i know better.

When she texted me asking about the health insurance deductibles (in RI, you have to keep your ex, estranged, selfish spouse on your health insurance until s/he remarries), i suspected it was a means to an end. i told her that i couldn't care less what procedure she was going for, but she had to tell, delighted in telling me, savored being able to text C-A-N-C-E-R to me.

i still didn't bite; i know better, after 11 years: it is always about her and always will be. The next day, this:



i will not play, not one second more of my life will go to caring for her. It already lives inside me, the cancer of a wasted marriage.

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