Once I was married to a woman who said
use your fucking head to me
of course, I erupted at that and
said something back to her
like you don’t talk to me like that
or maybe I traded an expletive with her
but I don’t think so
and it was too long ago to remember
my exact enraged words
but I do rememberr, and what
she didn’t know was
the day she talked to me like that
the death bells began to knell
and though she didn’t know it
I was done with her on that day
in my heart I had left her
because I don’t suffer disrespect
nor would I talk to a woman like that
especially one I was supposed to love.
Bob Boyd