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Firing Day

Felix Dennis
April 15, 2004
Mandalay, Mustique
Unpublished
Arrow
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She stood up as he entered,
   Asked him to sit down, wondering: ‘Does he know?’
Blurted her usual speech, hard-edged, soft-centred,
   Ending: ‘...to let you go.’

He startled her by smiling.
   ‘Do you rehearse them in mirrors, hon’?’
Stood up, winked and left.  She tinkered with her filing,
   Thinking: ‘Thank God that’s done.’