I HAD A LONG TALK

with my conscience:
It was time
to break-up
we agreed
for the sake
of both of us.

We're not stupid.

We know
we're going
to be tempted
to reconcile,
to fuck each other
again;
one last fuck
for old time's sake.
We know
we're going to be
sorely tested.

But we know,
bottom line,
we ain't no good
for each other.

How we split
the kids
and the pad
is anybody's
guess.

And
that fuckin book
is mine.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016