Love Poem: Perfidia
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Written by: Bernard Chan

Perfidia

sitting there in the cinema
holding his phone
checking his messages
he rotated his upper body 
                            ever so slightly
towards his wife next to him
as if making himself comfortable
angling the screen away
                            ever so slightly 
so that all she could see 
was a sliver of glow

an oh-so-subtle movement 
that would have been lost 
on a casual observer

which
unbeknownst to him 
she was not