my wife & william

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2
perfect
strangers
leave the bar
& walk the sea wall
arm in arm.
he’s known only
as william
& he stinks
pleasantly of pickles
& gin. i’ll wait
until he enters
my wife.
i’ll wait until
he’s done.
then.