The Raise I Got for Closing My Own Bedroom Door
My flight got canceled and I came home early. My boss was in my bed. My wife pulled the sheet up and couldn't look at me...
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The Wife Who Waved Until She Thought I Couldn't See
From the last car of the troop train I watched my wife wave until she thought I couldn't see her anymore.
Then she turned around and kissed the man who'd driven her to the station.
She kept writing to me every week for two years.
I was twenty-five and she was twenty-four, and we had been married two weeks.
She wore her good hat, the little green one with the feather, and she had my name on a government allotment, fifty dollars a month.
"I'll wave till you can't see me," she told me at the steps.
She was a woman of her word.
I just had better eyes than she figured.
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