The Slow-Cooked Sentence

So today’s my anniversary and I forgot.

“I’m happy,” my husband said as he reminded me. “I’m happy with you. The kids. The house.”

“I think Ivan’s in the toilet,” I replied.

As he pulled out the toddler, I raised my glass in a silent, solo toast to fourteen years, four kids, but not one of them conceived in a backseat. I shrug. Sex, schmex, and then hum a little of that song from “Fiddler on the Roof.”

(Tevye) …
Do you love me?

(Golde)
I’m your wife.

(Tevye)
“I know…”
But do you love me?

(Golde)
Do I love him?
For twenty-five years I’ve lived with him
Fought with him, starved with him
Twenty-five years my bed is his
If that’s not love, what is?

(Tevye)
Then you love me?

(Golde)
I suppose I do.

(Tevye)
And I suppose I love you too.

Want to know where some great backseat action is taking place? Check out Black Cab Sessions Chapter 60 featuring Calexico. I’m digging the song “Not even Stevie Nicks,” particularly this line:

Ain’t it a beaut of a sentence? And there’s enough in that song for me to pull my husband into the backseat for our own little session.