misery accompanies the man
with strange bedfellows
and his multitude of sins are acknowledged
as egregious mistakes

one mistake, Tiffany,
was off the wall
she slept with the fishes
and was a lampless sea
her alacrity to be
with him
was her weakness
her alastor became her conscience
and it directed her to leave him

misery followed the man
after her departure.
the wages of sin was his death
for him primacy over his lovers.