The dynamic between the partners
is in dialogue with the dynamic between the spouses.
She wants to get out of the Life
but the Life won’t let her go.
Tight shot of the interracial handshake.
He keeps a fifth of whiskey in his desk drawer
behind the bottle of antacid.
The system’s going to hell
and the suits downtown don’t give a damn.
The hardest part is seeing
what it does to the kids.
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The hardest part is seeing
the dynamic between the partners.
The suits downtown don’t give a damn
what it does to the kids.
She wants to get out of the Life
behind the bottle of antacid.
In dialogue with the dynamic between the spouses
the system’s going to hell.
He keeps a fifth of whiskey in his desk drawer
but the Life won’t let her go.
Tight shot of the interracial handshake.
Benjamin Goluboff is the author, most recently, of Moe Asch: a Speculative Life in Verse (Kelsay Books). Goluboff teaches English at Lake Forest College and lives in Chicago. Some of his work can be read at https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/goluboff/