Meet The Wife

Towering white walls and stainless steel shelves
With brands bearing down and swirling round
Big block letters, special offers
And eerie music attacking the eardrums
A young woman foraged far from home

Her mind wandered and brain fizzled
Checking the guide the motherperson made
To push her on the lonely journey
Into a plastic packed, middle class world

The trolley filled and she lost her grip
And kachinking off course, a box fell out
To be caught by the loveliest figure
Of the most beautiful man she'd ever seen
In deep and dark leather boots

He picked up the fallen and read “Triple Choc!”
Laughing to himself carelessly
Placing it firmly back into her hands
And walking casually on his way

He had gone proudly up the aisle
Never taking her with him