but gradually, over minutes, hours, days or years.
it will sometimes leave a laundry list of medical problems,
particularly to those who already feel repressed, and often stings
a final time weeks later when one finds a car magazine in her
sheets that her lover, whom she has not spoken with since,
has left behind. she may laugh this off as the biggest joke of
the season to whomever is available at the moment, that she
was with someone who had a car magazine to begin with, mostly;
but her knuckles
turn white in the night as she clenches her pillow and soaks it with tears,
dull pain rising to a peak,
turning to her side to face the wall.
