Frank

They didn’t tell me much at first
it took a while
but after a year they told me about my predecessor
I knew by then he had been popular
competent,
cheerful
and an incorrigible flirt.
Flirting:,
that was what I thought
had been led to believe
that’s were it began and ended they implied,
shrugging, a man surrounded by women – what do you expect?
Then
they told me about him and Kathryn
seemed very friendly .. perhaps too much
and maybe
but both seemed happily married so maybe not,
until,
the boss, a prime middle-class woman
of whom all claimed passion had passed by
received a phone call from Kathryn’s husband
“ your service manager is fucking my wife.”