Poetry Patch
Dating in Decatur
A poem inspired by your home Patch
I know buying a house here was a good move, because the first man to bring me flowers told me so. “This is a nice neighborhood,” he noticed, as we strolled toward Wahoo! Grill for lunch. I glanced back at the pot overflowing with delicate purple supertunias newly dangling from my porch. Supertunias for a second date! He keeps talking, “Carolyn has been thinking of moving to Decatur.” Carolyn? “My wife,” he said - as if I’m the forgetful one. So the first man to bring me flowers is married. He’s not separated married, helpless and living on a futon with no one to iron his shirts. He’s unwrinkled, he eats well, and he knows just which section of the hardware store to go pick up a gift for his girlfriend. He’s married-married. I mean, …
Cynthia L. Armistead
5:48 pm on Sunday, March 27, 2011
If based upon real life events - the author didn't know about the marriage before agreeing to a date? It sounds that way. Uncool. If the wife knows and approves of him dating, he might be in a polyamorous (aka "responsibly non-monogamous") relationship. However, one of the major tenets of such relationships is that everybody involved knows whats going on up front, which would have meant … more ›