Goodbye

She's making love to him as though he'll pay her with love he would have given her in the lost years. She's baking a fruit cake she saw in a cookery book. It's the best she's ever made. She knows he likes it. She's taking out the garbage. Usually they sleep all Saturday mornings, and assume the garbage people will somehow open the locked kitchen door, and take out the garbage. Her suitcase is about to burst; Her flight ticket is at her dressing table; Her nails are well made and glossed; Her taxi is about to reach the gate.... She's about to tell him "Goodbye" for good.....