She said she needed a break from him.
They’d been arguing too much.
She needed to reassess their relationship.
It had gotten a little too rocky for her.
She was going on a trip.
She refused to tell him where,
except that she was taking a vacation
to get far away from him for a while.
She never returned from that trip.
Her mother said she went to Florida,
and disappeared there.
The police suspected foul play, she said.
He knew she was dead and dumped
in the everglades and probably devoured
by alligators.
Shortly after that, he went on a trip
to Florida too, and kind of disappeared
there … in the Everglades Correctional
Institution for a life sentence.
Bob Boyd