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Roshan Houshmand The Circus |
RemarriageMy second husband saysHe wishes my first husband Would get married again-- My first husband Has been dead three years, And I dream about him. At first, he was angry, Or calling on the phone Wanting to come home But I was already With the man who would become My second husband. Recently, I began to dream My dead husband was dating A very pretty-- But obviously not Jewish-- Blonde woman, She seemed very nice. My second husband Was getting sick of my dreams-- He said he hoped they'd get married. In my next dream My first husband told me He was indeed marrying her But he enraged me By inviting his sisters But not our daughter to the wedding. My friends politely mention They think I am in denial After all, my first husband Is dead, not getting married. But it is as if He has some kind of life That goes on without me Perhaps because I have had So much go on without him. |
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Issue #12, November, 1999 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.