Everyone knows
Betty and Frank
have had an affair
too grandiose a word
for what happens between them
Frank wears overalls
he takes them off
at Betty’s house
Betty tends towards negligees
she doesn’t remove them
because of her less
than ideal middle body
they have had regularish sex
for 15 years in our small village
of 324. Small didn’t stop them.
Frank’s wife Sarah suspects Betty
She’s not sure.
Frank is a farmer in his 60s
Betty is 81. She still looks good.
Better than Frank. Ten years
Ago her husband died, and she
Is free as a bird, she says,
except for Tom, her
church boyfriend. She and Tom
are chaste. Tom doesn’t believe
in premarital sex. He is a
religious man of 73. Now what
comes next said postmistress Irene
the 20th time we all discussed,
while buying our stamps,
Frank and Betty’s situation.
My guess said Martha, former
Queens policewoman, long retired,
my guess is that they’ll tie
the knot before I’m dead.