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© Rachel Green April 2025
IV.VIII
Just a little insight for the missing tenant's rage
explains why he might end his fruitless life
a further explanation when she scans beyond the page
and finds Mary was due to be his wife.
Upon the little altar is the tiny gleam of gold;
an even smaller diamond set within
and what she thought was just a plastic biro pen of old
is a pregnancy test that's showing pink.
Not only did he lose a wife, he lost a child too;
no wonder, then, he smashed up all his flat
though why a shrine to her was in the window of his loo
implies a shame that he had never spoken out.
© Rachel Green April 2025
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