“The couch was wide enough for two, but I sat in it alone. Was I obese in body—or skinny in love?”
“The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel.”
“Then on the shoreOf the wide world I stand alone, and thinkTill love and fame to nothingness do sink.”
“...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.”
“Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.”
“You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard.”