Twisters

He put down his drink. She had just astonished him. He adjusted himself. She made note, and tasted victory. You’re not man enough, she said.

Our team wins. An eruption of genuine euphoria. The bartender says, Drinks on the house! I put my money down. Don’t harsh my ideology, I say.

He took her to the zoo but all the animals were asleep. Invisible. But not in the reptile house. Now that’s a snake, she said. Scolding him.

The astronomer says, I couldn’t stand him any longer, and then she says, I banished him like Pluto, and then she sighs and says, Is it cold?