The two of us, my co-worker and I
busy at our computers.
John took out his cell.
“Have to call THE wife, won’t take long.”
“What? “You want to call THE wife?
My surprise meant nothing to him.
At 59, he was very much “old school.”
Was he or I the fool?
My young wife had she been there,
She would have told John calmly
that using the word, THE, today,
was indeed rare,
and pejorative.
It lowered her to a “possession.”—
an object “his” property.
John was baffled,” but, but,
I love my wife…
She is my whole life.
My own wife, having recently
returned from the “Women’s March”
could have explained it all.
Would John have understood?