A mistress

‘For a month you weren't seen. Busy!’

‘A visitor; I gave him company’

‘Yes, I heard. He must be horrible.’

‘No, he is fun; he makes me laugh.’

‘A country man, fatty and old.’

‘I don’t think he is bad.’

‘It may be. I don’t appreciate.’

‘It is funny to move about with him.

And find the difference with a stranger.’

‘A new watch on your hand; How much?’

‘I didn’t buy. He presented it; 200 pounds.’

‘Is it the price for the company you gave?’

‘Be it so. Why must you bother yourself?

I am happy when I am with you.

Aren’t you happy when I’m with you?

Let us have a good time where we can.

You must take as I am and no more.

I take you as you’re without a probe.’

He was a lover and she, his mistress.

As such he can only be voiceless.

06.01.2012

[inspired by a novel by Somerset Maugham.]