(a big box)
are all the messages
all the messages I ever sent you
the messages I sent you
and
the messages you sent back
the conversations we had
There's a hard drive
in the box
(the hard drive
I took out of the computer
when I sold it
so no-one else would ever see it)
The box sits in the corner
The box has all the messages
(to and from)
and the hard drive
+
In another box is a cd
(the cd is full of messages, too)
+
There is a box and a hard drive
a box and a hard drive and a cd
and my head
(full of memories)
+
There are papers in the box.
The papers have messages on them.
I have kept the papers
(and the hard drive and the cd you sent)
+
On the houseboat
(the houseboat where you were
so very married)
the cd and the papers and the drawings I sent
(through the post, their glasses smashed)
were surplus to requirements. Your wife,
after all,
might have found them.
For all I knew, she knew
all along. She might have laughed
(ha ha)
Oh God another one, she might have said.
Another knicker-thrower.