EQUITABLE DIVISION

what you took was brutally frugal:

too many gaps are what remained

not enough light I say not enough room

you said as if that were what

you'd always been lacking but

time also ran out on us

and there's not a penalty

for everything

nor a payback for the mildew

of this nothing

that lingers greying in the rooms

and doesn't fit me and even

if it used to fit I never

learned how to dissolve it.