Same Old Story
When Martha gets home from
cooking class this afternoon,
Martin will be gone
after 30 years of marriage.
Martha won't know why
but it's the same old story
another woman
this one young and beautiful
but deaf and mute as well
a woman Martin likes
because her body speaks
a language all its own
a woman who stays home
unless Martin chooses
to walk her
along with Sparky,
an old sheepdog his wife
gave him as a pup.