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Television

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.