Ken's Wife Milly (Serial Poem 3)
Milly and Ken met in Brooklyn.
Seventeen and twenty. They met
at O'Lunney's Irish Bar. That was that
according to Milly, in nursing school then.
Ken drove a truck. They decided early on
to have two children to move to the country
to move their jobs upstate . Milly
was thin and energetic. She wore capris
and gardened and baked.
Milly worked as a nurse. Ken drove a truck.
Their son and daughter grew up in the country. They
lived a quiet enough life. Beer and cigarettes for Ken.
He watched sports on TV and Milly always cooked.
But life is never as simple as it seems.