'Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment.
— You said I was very special to you.
— You were.
— Yeah, me and three other women.
— I said you were special, not unique.
I just spent three weeks in Tuscany. I saw the Palio in Siena, she said, strumming the words like the strings of a guitar. It’s a fifteenth-century horse race through the cobbled streets. Would I exchange that for a husband and kids and happily-ever-after? Not to mention the likely outcome, divorce and overtime at the bank and shaky child support.