To My Unrelenting Spouse Who Has Been Exiled To The Basement

Rose Burke
2 min readSep 20, 2021
Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash

At some point during these past few months, as we bickered through the lips of our lawyers and divided between us the things that don’t actually matter (like that four-foot ceramic gargoyle in the upstairs bathroom and that repulsive painting depicting topless clowns you insisted hang in the hall), you’ve hidden something very precious to me.

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Rose Burke

Satirical writer taking on life’s cruel sense of humor one word at a time. Published by The Independent, TSR, The Conium Review, and more. www.RoseBurke.com