All of the exxes

[PrinceMyshkin]

for Delta40

All of the exxes
in all of our minds
are huddled outside our doors,
their hands filled
with apologies, with slightly wilted
flowers or a hardly bruised plum
from which someone
has taken just the tiniest bite;
they gather with their shirts
or blouses half off,
their pasty, unlovely bodies
eager to be pawed.

[neilgee]

love the:

hardly bruised plum
from which someone
has taken just the tiniest bite;

- very evocative

[hillwalker]

I also liked the image of a plum with just the 'tiniest bite' taken out of it - slightly damaged goods are preferable to damaged goods supposedly.

You are also implying that most of us would as likely as not take our ex(x)es back, regardless of their faults, on condition that they apologised to us. Therein lies the dilemma of course.

H

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thanks, neilgee, and


I also liked the image of a plum with just the 'tiniest bite' taken out of it - slightly damaged goods are preferable to damaged goods supposedly.

You are also implying that most of us would as likely as not take our ex(x)es back, regardless of their faults, on condition that they apologised to us. Therein lies the dilemma of course.

H

"the dilemma"?

As to the whether or not. this was written under the influence and in response to Delta40's poem on the subject of her one, apparently execrable ex.

[Hawkman]

It is interesting to observe that couples who divorce, go through a period wherein they spend far more time having sex with eachother than they did when they were married, at least in the run up to the marital breakdown. Neither really want's the other back but there is an element of fear over looking for anyone else. The sex gives both parties an illusion of security for the duration of the reajustment period.

When both parties eventually come to terms with reality, the bitterness and perception of betrayal colour their memories and eventually make future association with the ex unthinkable. Always more difficult when kids are involved though.

[Maryd.]

I'm with Neilgee on this one... Very evocative.

Once again Prince your work astounds me.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thanks MaryD and


It is interesting to observe that couples who divorce, go through a period wherein they spend far more time having sex with eachother than they did when they were married, at least in the run up to the marital breakdown. Neither really want's the other back but there is an element of fear over looking for anyone else. The sex gives both parties an illusion of security for the duration of the reajustment period.

When both parties eventually come to terms with reality, the bitterness and perception of betrayal colour their memories and eventually make future association with the ex unthinkable. Always more difficult when kids are involved though.

I was friends with a woman once, long separated from the husband with whom she'd had a child. In referring to him once, she used the word "family."

"You still think of him as family?'" I asked.

"Of course!" she answered: "We have a child in common..."

I treasure that unusual, civilized point of view.

[Delta40]

It is interesting to observe that couples who divorce, go through a period wherein they spend far more time having sex with eachother than they did when they were married, at least in the run up to the marital breakdown. Neither really want's the other back but there is an element of fear over looking for anyone else. The sex gives both parties an illusion of security for the duration of the reajustment period.

When both parties eventually come to terms with reality, the bitterness and perception of betrayal colour their memories and eventually make future association with the ex unthinkable. Always more difficult when kids are involved though.

Very difficult indeed. Fortunately, it takes energy to sustain animosity and hatred and most of us just haven't got the endurance - not over the lifetime of a child. Exes eventually get along and even laugh with one another.

Thank you for the poem Prince (even if you were under the influence! :rolleyes:) Very nicely termed - esp the wilting flowers, bruised plum with the tiniest of bites!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Very difficult indeed. Fortunately, it takes energy to sustain animosity and hatred and most of us just haven't got the endurance - not over the lifetime of a child. Exes eventually get along and even laugh with one another.

Thank you for the poem Prince (even if you were under the influence! :rolleyes:) Very nicely termed - esp the wilting flowers, bruised plum with the tiniest of bites!


Exes mark the spot
although we wish they would not.
But when they come to 'play'
it's sometimes we who showed them the way.

[Maryd.]

Exes mark the spot
although we wish they would not.
But when they come to 'play'
it's sometimes we who showed them the way.
Oh bravo
:hurray::hurray:

[Delta40]

And sometimes when they leave
it was us who showed them the door!

[Maryd.]

And sometimes when they leave
it was us who showed them the door!

True that....:rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Haunted]

oh yeah, they knock on your door with a dozen red roses after the breakup when they didn't bother to do it on Valentines Day while still married. A little too late for that.

[PrinceMyshkin]

And sometimes when they leave
it was us who showed them the door!

Was that not the same door through which we invited/allowed them in?

[Delta40]

lol. Every heart has a back door!

[PrinceMyshkin]

lol. Every heart has a back door!

And some of them, I betcha, screech in protest as we open them!