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September 1, 2013
It was Uncle Arthur’s
final bit on the side
that caused his marriage
to wobble and slide.
It didn’t help at all
that Aunt Ramona,
for most of her life,
had always known her.
They rode bikes together
as school girl chums,
and giggled in class,
and cheated at sums.
Little did she dream
that seventy years on,
Arthur would meet Alice,
who’s memory had gone.
They were in the same Care Home
sitting side by side,
holding hands across their chairs,
with Arthur’s marriage on the slide.
For long suffering Aunt Ramona,
this was the last of many
of Arthur’s wild philandering –
He now even called her ‘Jenny’!
‘The silly fool’ she thought
as she sat all alone
on the front seat of the bus –
Arthur’s ways, she couldn’t condone.
In a freezing, mucky bus shelter
she’d waited twice a week,
to visit Arthur and her school chum
sitting cosily cheek to cheek!
But with her own health now fading,
there no longer seemed the need,
to visit Arthur any longer,
though inside her heart did bleed.
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