The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith

Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241471982
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2020-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

PUBLICAN POLLY

What we can’t get easy? That’s what we crave.

We get obsessed, we stalk, we don’t behave …

ZAIRE

Tell us no, we’re all over it, we’re set:

But come on strong? We lose interest, all bets

Are off. Play hard to get, and we’ll chase you,

But act too keen? Then I’m just not that into

You. Masochism, some say, but isn’t it

Also just how things work in a market?

Love is capital: this, smart women know.

ALVITA

But I married the fifth one, as it goes,

For love not money – bless him – still a young

Bwoy he was; an Oxford student, just sprung

From college and looking for a flatshare.

He rented a room off my mate Zaire,

My ride-and-die bitch. I tell her everything,

And vice versa. There’s no secret I can’t bring

Zaire. If my husband pissed up a wall

Or something much worse, it’s Zaire I’d call,

Or any girlfriend I know, or my niece,

Kelly … He can’t make me sign a release

Form! I’ll speak! And that’s what I kept doing,

Telling his secrets, and he was screwing,

And well-shamed and sorry he ever told

Me any private thing, new or old …

But then one day mid-March, it was springtime –

Which is when I like to take some proper ‘me time’

At Zaire’s; get out of Brent; see some trees

(Cos sistas like the country, too, believe);

And we hung out with this Ryan, Zaire

And me,

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