shade

ode to my ex- in-law

you’ll probably write all of this 
in a book someday, he scoffs

hoping to discourage me from
exactly that / knowing how bad

he’ll look if I do / I smile and don’t
tell him how arrogant and also 

humorous it is to think I’d want 
his sorry ass in any book of mine

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.” (Anne Lamott)