lower back pains

i don’t know what happened to her between

the seventies and eighties

she used to be such an honest girl

the kind of girl who washed the dishes

the kind of girl who preferred plays to films

something changed

now she hits the dog

she wakes me in the middle of the night

to tell me something about me that she doesn’t like

last night she told me that she hates the way i blink

when i look at her

i remember before

when we were young

when weekends started with cocktails

instead of fights

now they end with cocktails

alone