This is a story about coffee, or the lack of it, and how this led to some yawning, and how those yawns were misinterpreted. And the divorce.

The bistro is empty. There are two unhappy people at a corner table. They hold hands. And talk about the third unhappy person in their lives.

The dawn’s light surprises him and he can only imagine that maybe he’s in love, but then she calls him “tedious” and he has to look that up.

The request came from The School for the Prevention of Awkward Moments. And he wrote them a check for a hundred dollars. It just felt right.

She reached for his hand and took it and then he fell as if he’d been shot and he apologized and said, Sometimes the world moves too quickly.

After he punched the macaques at the zoo, and the notoriety had worn off, his big idea was tie-dye t-shirts. That’s when she gave up on him.