August 20, 8:56 p.m. in Apartment U
Half-watching Ross and Rachel, Jenny blurts
that this sitcom hurts her. She hurries out,
struts down to Apartment N, checks Facebook
and sees something from her English boyfriend
—no more ten hour flights for seventy two
hour holidays, twenty dollar ship
-ping for a jerky maker he won’t return,
crying, “There’s no jerky here!”
August 20, 8:56 a.m. in the Piggly Wiggly Backroom
When Granddaddy was married to his first wife
—not my Nana—he was in the Korean
War and you know all the women over there
have gonorrhea and shit. A lot of
the soldiers messed around a lot, but
he didn’t want no part of that. He was there
for eighteen months, and he told her that if
she wanted to be first when he got back
that she’d better be the first bitch he saw
when he got off the boat.
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