The Fool's Wife

The king's a fool. He's a fool's fool.

It's unnatural. What servant has

a servant? What wife a wife?

I'm the fool's fool once removed.

And when the king, that fink,

is in a funk and sends his fool away,

he drowns himself in sack,

then sacks out in the hay.

—Dallas Crow

"The Fool's Wife" originally appeared in Dunes Review (Summer 2008).