you sit across the table from
a woman who
at some point in the past
has beaten your youngest child and
you listen
she talks about nothing as
a plane flies overhead
bitches about her life as you
watch the sunfilled front yard and
you answer and wish for a cigarette
and close your eyes against
whatever it is she says next
you wait
but not for anything in
particular
you breathe
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