My Only Affair With An Older Woman Poem by James McLain

She is still alive
the sex was great I am now
what she was then
we drifted apart because.

I got married to my first and only wife
no longer with her
name I won't mention
them both
embarrassing awkward moments
two out of three
we had.

Drunk she tried
to sleep
with the other
she eats only meat
and a slap in the face
she received.

I mustive been
the only plumber
that never
got out of bed for a while
I was drained.

Moments all
good
and bad
then she came
the daughter you see
in the picture
with me.

I really never recovered
after finding
out that after I left
my sister
in my house
for a year and one half
was sleeping in plain view
in front of my daughter.

The sheriff
now in Congress
sent a deputy there
to run her off,
confessional poetry sucks
it leads you back
to where I went after that.

I lived in my car for three years
during what
I would call abuse to my child
if your gay it's O.K.
though I'm not with that
cause I'm straight.