Best New Poetry: A Marital Scattergories Card by Katherine Grasso
- 4 days ago
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A Marital Scattergories Card
Scorekeeping not recommended
Celebrities who stayed
Flattering photos of her I find on the internet
Excuses to miss work (back pain, sick dog, another migraine)
Questions he answers with “I don’t remember”
Telephone numbers for marriage counselors
Pros and cons on a yellow legal pad (not counting the cost of divorce)
Imaginary scenarios of him with her to torture myself
Songs I add to my “RAGE” playlist
Times he whispers “I’m sorry” into my hair when he thinks I’m asleep
Unflattering photos of her I download, then delete
Names of people we agree to tell (not my parents)
Ways we rehearse what we’ll tell the children (together)
Katherine Grasso is an associate professor of communication studies at DeSales University, a liberal arts college in PA. Her work can be found in The Adroit Journal, Pithead Chapel, trampset, West Trade Review, and Cimarron Review. She loves traveling, eating chocolate, sleeping in a tent, and snuggling with her dogs.
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