An Argument She Won
The first proper row we ever had
was about The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
the film, not the book,
cos she’d only seen the film.
And she thought Daniel Day Lewis’ character
was a total bastard,
and open relationships were a load of bollocks,
and all that shagging around
and making a philosophy out of it,
pretending it was different and new
and somehow interesting
when it was only sad and pathetic.
I tried to say maybe
it’s more complicated than that,
maybe it’s a question of finding a balance.
She got really annoyed then,
so that the blokes sitting at the next table
turned to stare.
Calm down, I said,
it’s only a film.
Though we both knew it wasn’t,
and a week later, I left him for her.
was about The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
the film, not the book,
cos she’d only seen the film.
And she thought Daniel Day Lewis’ character
was a total bastard,
and open relationships were a load of bollocks,
and all that shagging around
and making a philosophy out of it,
pretending it was different and new
and somehow interesting
when it was only sad and pathetic.
I tried to say maybe
it’s more complicated than that,
maybe it’s a question of finding a balance.
She got really annoyed then,
so that the blokes sitting at the next table
turned to stare.
Calm down, I said,
it’s only a film.
Though we both knew it wasn’t,
and a week later, I left him for her.
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