Publicity Blitz

However gentle she imagines herself
she was involved with a married man,
a front running presidential candidate at the time.

She believed discretion would keep the secret
until her baby bump, an accident by all accounts,
it was love after all, passion run amok
adults behaving like teenagers…

After the scandal broke
public humiliations and talk shows
courtroom trials and contrition
the final condemnation by the faithful wife

this publicity whore emerges again
to tell her side of the story. Does anyone
care? She should be buried with her lover

and forgotten before she says another word.
Push her into the river of oblivion, let her float

away never remembered or thought of again.