Selections from Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2003
wifebeat
Michael Casey
OK this sergeant beats up his lady
we get the phone call to his house
on base housing
and bring him in
his company has to send
one very pissed off officer to sign
and then the subject wifebeater
must stay at his company’s orderly room
for twenty-four hours before going back home
we get a frantic call from the company’s CQ
that one particular sergeant has broken
this hour restriction and run off
of course we suspect his worst
the desk sergeant phone calls the guy’s house
the guy answers
and the desk sergeant says
is this sergeant wifebeater’s house?
is your wife home as we speak?
sorry wrong number
and the MP’s arrive just in time
the wife lets them in
and they find the sergeant hiding in the bathroom
sort of around the toilet
from the cruiser leaving his yard
the sergeant give his wife the finger
and that really teaches her something
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