He gets jealous
When she’s on the phone too long
Or when her phone rings
And she doesn’t pick it up
‘Who’s that?’ he asks
Like he’s not mad about it
‘Telemarketer,’ she says
But she’s already waiting
To get asked again
Two hours later
Him wanting to see her phone
Her call log
Him calling the number back
Him calling the number back
Finding out it is, in fact, a call center somewhere
But not apologizing
Never apologizing
It’s not his fault
If you suspect it
There’s something there
To suspect
That’s how he looks at it
That’s how he insists
On looking at it
He gets jealous
When she goes out
Even if it’s just
With her girlfriends
Even if it’s somewhere
Where no man
Would ever go
Or could ever go
Or has ever been seen before
As soon as she gets home
He’s waiting
He wants to know
Where she was
I told you
Who she was with
I told you
And she waits
The same way he waits
Because she knows
That as she’s taking off
Her make-up
He’ll ask--
And there were no guys there?
He says it’s because
He’s been cheated on before
And she believed it in the beginning
She felt bad
Now she just feels bad
For the women
She mentally threw under the bus
When she first met him
Women she never met
But who she blamed
For him being
The way he is
Men like him aren’t created by women
They don’t trust women
Because they don’t like women
And they deal with that
By trying
To control women
And that’s something she knows now
Now that she’s got a two-year lease with him
And three years together
That she’d hate to erase
He gets jealous
When she’s on her laptop
Or when she gets home late from work
When she takes too long
At the mall
Or the market
Or her mom’s
He gets jealous
When they see a movie
And she comments on how good
One of the actors is
He gets jealous
When she buys a new dress
Or gets dressed up
Or smiles too much
Sometimes she wonders
If he likes being jealous
If it comforts him
Somehow
She wonders what
He’s getting out of it
What it does for him
What problem it solves
She wonders
If it’s doing anything
For anybody
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