My Second Wife

My second wife?

I treasured her.

I'd like to think

I pleasured her.

And when she died

I measured her

for a cardboard coffin

in the "leisure area"

(aka the back garden).

In the dank depths of the night,

no mourners, tears or sounds,

the cat looked on and yawned

as I put her in the ground.

The council came a-calling.

They said it was appalling.

They said there were 'rules'.

I called them all fools

which they seemed to find quite galling.

So now Wife Number 2

rests where the others do.

B.R. 24.05.2021

Kay Hammond as Elvira Condomine in the classic David Lean film "Blithe Spirit" (1945)
which co-starred Sexy Rexy Harrison as Charles and Constance Cummings as Ruth