Dog Tag

I told him
I loved him
He said he loved me back

He called me his Eve
and said
he was my Jay

But he couldn't deal
with that relationship
because I had a child
and he wasn't ready to be a father
just yet

but for a couple months
I continued
to wear his dog tag

then decided
enough was enough

but I still kept the tag
though I wasn't wearing it anymore

a few weeks passed
the tag grew heavier
along with my heart

Then he told me
he was
"On a date"

So I took the tag off the necklace
handed it to a guy I barely knew
and told him

Get rid of this for me. Please.
I don't want to know where you put it
I just don't want it anymore.

He looked at me
puzzled

I told him I might tell him the story someday
but right then it was just too painful.

As he climbed out of my bed the next morning
he told me
he'd thrown it off the Monroe Street Bridge

I've never loved the Spokane River so much