You can’t stop thinking about it, can you?
Not after all this time.
It’s been years
but still it rustles your bunyons
– or some other phrase
that makes a little bit more sense.

She was out to get you, wasn’t she?
It seemed all sickly sweet
but she was working
to push your buttons
needle all the right places
slam you right where it was necessary
to get your goat.
She was working it hard.

Still
you didn’t have to do that, did you?
Yours was an over-reaction
out of proportion to the original offense.
You went an order of magnitude beyond
even if she deserved something
of a response
at the time.

You can see that now, right?

You can see that now, right?

…right?