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[lastcake]

'how was the meeting'
she said
to her cheating husband

let's not
is what she meant
but her apron's
tying her mouth shut

they stay together
for the kids

he uses the window
and she sleeps alone

she's thinking about
the music man
who volunteers at
the elementary school

and touching herself
because he won't

and the kids
wear dark sunglasses

because their mother
is bathing in loneliness
and boredom robbed their father