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Book 17 Page 30

 

The silent treatment

 

When she breaks her silence,

she usually refers to me by all manner of profanities.

And you would think I would protest,

but actually I welcome it.

For it is the ‘silence’ that I hate most.

 

Sometimes silence is anything but ‘golden.’

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 4/25/00