April 23, 2022:
She'd sit on the floor blasting The Darkness: "Everything I put myself through..."
Until the switch in her brain was thrown and she'd come up swinging.
She broke my shin with a pewter statuette of the Virgin Mary.
Put me in the emergency room with a rabbit punch to the kidney that took me by surprise.
Detached both retinas when she caught me in the face with something I don't remember.
Tried to skewer me with a fireplace poker.
Threw sticky food over the walls. Fought to pull down bookcases. Chased the cat with a cigarette lighter, threatening to burn out its eyes. Wrote antisemitic slogans on the walls in faux German.
Through the magic of stereotyping the lesbian couple down the road thought I was abusing her. They'd flip us off as we drove past them, waving them hello.