By: Rex Easley
when I said I wouldn’t marry her, she said
okay, then i’m moving to kansas
we piled books on the floor and sorted
yours mine not sure do you want this one?
no, I didn’t really like it, just said I did
in the driveway out front her father,
sullen and wary, arranged boxes in the back of
a u-haul, stopped long enough to glare at me
every time I came near the door
when we were done, she said, I’ll be alone in kansas
can I have your little television?
you can have it, I said,
for fifty dollars
without a word she went outside, came back
with her father’s money
I carried the television out to the
u-haul, put it in the back
later on, when I wanted her back, she said that the television
was another thing she didn’t like about me
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Rex Easley is an English professor at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. Have published fiction and poetry in various national and regional literary journals.