Advice

Well, you should try to enjoy how bad it is now
because it only gets worse

the woman in front of me promised her friend
without flinching

Well, damn that's true
her friend replied

I didn’t hear what they were talking about
But it might as well have been anything at all

Divorce
Aging
Traffic
Alzheimer’s Disease
Climate change

They could have been talking about their breasts
and the inevitable sagging that will take its turn

or the neighbor down the street who yells at the mail man
for waking him from his nap
every time there’s a knock on the door that needs a signature

or maybe their teenage daughters
the angst
the shifting into their adult selves
the motherly yearning to cradle them in arms
when hearts are broken
the slamming of bedroom doors

or maybe the opened bottle of cheap wine
that has been sitting half full on the counter for 3 days

and 

They’re right, they’re right


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