From 'The Double' Xa Poem by Morgan Michaels

From 'The Double' Xa

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After their split, she came to realize the value of 'cohesion' and began to dig herself out, in the usual way, becoming a moral exampler. But by that time, most of the family had moved to Spain and she didn't have their addresses, so there was no one except her treasured obligation, Miggi, to benefit from her newfound piety. She continued to treasure him after the separation, and didn't much mind when his teachers complained he was 'slow'. But she wished he'd been a girl, and told him so. Then, she'd know what to do with him. She may have coached him a little, 'si'. As when she advised him not to tell Miriam of his first marriage, nor of his son. Not yet. In the Cuba of the day it was a wife's pride to furnish her husband a son- a papito. No use her learning the job already done. No problem, though. When she saw the child, she would be won, because he was superb, with sturdy limbs and a lovely pallor. In his piping voice, he would beg her to be his 'new' madre. Her heart would melt, he was irresistable, though he didn't know it. Yes, a military marriage remedied a lot. Wildness was exciting in a young man- often his strongest selling point. The girl's father was a general, after all, and couldn't be ignorant of these things. There was no better credential in all Cuba than a father-in-law who was also a general.

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Marieta Maglas 10 November 2014

Nice prosaic poem-voted 10

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