Audio: Read by the author.
In a cosmic mixup,
the wife switches bodies with her husband.
Nothing like this has happened before, she cries
as she pulls on his pants, minds the crotch,
barrels down the long staircase to an office where they call her
Bud & How About Those Steelers.
It’s upsetting, the whole charade,
except at lunch when she orders fries and no one says,
We’re so bad,
or at the meeting when she gives the room all her best ideas
and they say, Man, where have you been?
We have to fix this, her husband begs
when the wife returns for dinner.
Come here, she says, slipping off her shoes
and drawing the curtains
before she makes love to another life.
This is drawn from “And Yet.”
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