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32. WHY DIVORCE IS LIKE DEATH (Dec. 2003)
On the other hand...
I pick up my pen a
half-year later.
The divorce is
proceeding, and there's no going back. Our lives are
dancing-through-to-darkness, I suppose, but I hear others' defiant laughter
along the way, why not? Let me add mine. So Stood Up I am Stand Up hear me
rrroar!
"A divorced friend said
to me, 'Divorce is like death.'
"Now why is that? It got
me thinking:
"Okay. I'm dead.
"I don't know about you,
but I'm not getting much sex.
"On the other hand,
nobody's rating my performance.
"If I want to skip a
shower, I get no complaints.
"You don't have to talk
everything out.
"No need to laugh at
lousy jokes.
"How many women are
really funny?
"You're only interested
in your own career.
"Women are nicer to me.
"If they come up with
something better than Viagra I don't care.
"Now, when the music
plays, it's never too loud.
"There's no need to
improve yourself. You're fine just as you are.
"I guess kids will simply
have to wait.
"Costs have definitely
come down.
"Nobody wakes me up.
"The argument over
getting a dog has ended."
On the last other hand--
oh how this living flesh hurts.
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