the personal trainer

husband

didn’t pay attention when she started to change her look,

after all, she’d been saying how she wanted to for a while &

it seemed to make sense,

what with her going back to the gym full time,

after a period of time away

when they first had been married---

husband just went about his days

working more hours than he knew what to do with,

business was good &

with all the business around him seeming to fail,

he’d been putting away for the life he imagined in the future,

with or without

her---

but her time spent at the gym seemed to increase &

thought her body began to get trimmer, sexier, tighter, stronger &

she seemed to walk around the house with a new zest for life

(when he was there to see her),

he still didn’t notice that

the personal trainer had moved in---

she had said something to him,

but he was listening less & less

as he had more & more to worry about at work,

for it was all part of building his empire.

 

the personal trainer was a less successful man

by the standard that money can by,

but he listened to her

as he traced her curves with his fingers in the gym

with palms of his hand smoothly gliding over her muscles

making her body quiver &

it wasn’t long before in the car outside the gym

they consummated the professional relationship

again &

again &

again &

again.

 

as she began to show less interest in sex with her husband,

he wrote it off as a side-effect of marriage &

found himself a main squeeze on the side,

a 20 something who needed money to get her through college

with a perkiness that made him feel young again &

a body that wouldn’t quit---

as he grew more distant from the wife,

she grew closer to the personal trainer,

until the day when she brought him home to the house,

when she swore the husband would be gone.

 

husband found out the way a husband will

when husband had been no longer interested

until another shows his face, as it is only jealousy then

which kicks in, making husband suddenly care---

but personal trainer put husband on the ground

when husband came into his own bedroom

to find personal trainer banging away his bride

who now had no interest in husband---

husband sued the personal trainer for assault &

bride to be divorced husband, taking half of everything he had,

breaking his empire down to nothing

as he had been stupid enough to not require a prenup

at the beginning of it all.