Spat by Caroline Bird

Spat

 

‘It’s me or the dog,’ she laughed,

though by ‘dog’ she meant ‘void’

and by ‘laughed’ I mean ‘sobbed’

and by ‘me’ she meant ‘us’

and by ‘she’ I mean ‘you’

and by ‘or’ she meant ‘and.’

‘It’s us and the void,’ you sobbed.