One person was brave enough to say it after my husband died: “You weren’t living with him. Why are you still so upset?”

after steven died, you would show up
on occasional friday nights
for my creative writing class

He always said the years
after the meltdown — when blood vessels
inside his skull exploded —
were a bonus, that if evolution
really worked, he’d have been dead
by now.

We regret to inform you that you are now a member of the club without a name …

hiya toots
its me