offals

You said you spent
(you, two, the tree) your life(!)
dissecting each other’s buttocks
--She Ben Affleck --Him Saartjie,
like amateur botanists

and in that time forgot
the taste of tap beer, mostly water;
learned cigarettes really are killing you
lightly, if not softly;

in the wake of pallid details
mostly, forgotten, I tell you:
sometimes the answer is better
a bitter argument.