Last summer your best friend\u2019s mistress visited
\nthis summer, your best friend\u2019s wife visited
\nI have more in common with the mistress
\nbut I like the wife better.<\/p>\n
your best friend’s mistress tells me
\nhe\u2019s the most interesting person she has ever met
\nbut he’s just a man who has seen war and makes movies<\/p>\n
we love to fall in love with them
\nthey must know everything
\nhaving suffered it all before<\/p>\n
your best friend’s wife asks if I’ve ever seen his face change
\nwhen he talks about the past
\nsimilar sentiment, less worshipful approach<\/p>\n
Don’t be such an apology
\neven if your country did invade his
\nand maybe you’ll catch a commitment.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s coffee and cake in a green and gold park
\nand something treacherous
\nnot just about sitting with his wife
\nwhere I’ve sat with his mistress<\/p>\n
but about trading secondhand war stories
\nfrom men who have tried to forget them
\nin our white-out arms from good families.<\/p>\n
it’s my first powerful secret
\nmy first, I wish you hadn’t told me that
\nit’s my one hundredth please, don\u2019t let me be like these women<\/p>\n
You once called me clueless about common infidelities
\na bit dramatic
\nbut here I sit on an adultery
\nhardly wobbling at all.<\/p>\n
When parents do it at least you can blame the seventies
\nand tell yourself you turned out fine.<\/p>\n
So what’s worse: a cheating father, a cheating husband,
\nor your cheating best friend
\nwho didn’t even ask before he sent his mistress
\nand then his wife
\nto ruin two of my summers in a row?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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