It took him
years to get her
to marry him.

She is twenty years
younger than him,
but he won her heart.

I told him
he was good for her
and he smiled.

“I buy her
$2000 in flowers,”
he told me.

“Everybody tells me
how good my place looks.
She plants them everywhere.”

“And you are good to her.
She needed that,”
I said.

“We go swimming
below your house,”
he said.

He never asked me
to join them.
I don’t blame him.