He’s only interested in you these days.
That’s not true.

Talking to anyone else bores him.
That’s true.

In all romantic love there’s something Oedipal.
That’s not true.

He’s got a daughter.
That’s true.

When you last met,
and he said it wasn’t true that he didn’t love you, he was lying.
True.

He talked about the rose gardens, told you that in his city…
Not true.

And about the woman who had to be given electric shock therapy.
That’s true.

And the other woman, who was burned to death,
and how, every night, he thinks of her face,
and when he goes downstairs for a glass of water, she’s there on the sofa, smiling,
True.

You really shouldn’t talk to him anymore.
True.

But you’ll still meet each other for coffee.
True.

He says he’d reach across the crash barrier anytime
to pick flowers for you.
He says that, but it isn’t true.

Flowers are not important.
True.