Declaration of war

Civil war declaration to change course of conflict

The World Today (ABC, Australia), 16 July 2012

‘Can either of you tell me,’

the conciliator said —

and, though we’d only gone along

for advice on the mortgage,

like ADHD

or a folie a deux

just naming the complaint

its invocation

conjured into being

the need for a painful remedy —

‘when you first noticed

your marriage was failing?’

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