Hilltop Drive

It took her only a two years to unravel the dusty threads.
730 days to uncoil the dry flesh
of the great King Snake.
I watched and antagonized
like a stone cold coward.
She knew,
I knew,
we both said nothing.
Like a couple of disgruntled retirees.

I over ate,
over drank
and overslept,
and then one day
she was gone.
Just
like
that.

It's a horrible pain.
Still.