16. "Round up the usual suspects"

        “Round up the usual suspects.” Thus

        Captain Renault saved your ass. And yet

        weren’t

        we

        the-usual-suspects,

        the adulterous cats on the run, rounded

        up

        at the cul-de-sac of our movie,

and bagged?

        Wasn’t

        I

        put

        away, sent

        across the ocean, via

Lisbon,

to serve a life sentence as the (not so) good wife,

leaving me to pork

down

memory

lane?

And didn’t they frame you, force

you

to play the free-lance war hero, contented

in that all-

male-

world,

instead of my undercover cuckmaster?