Forty Dollar Bathtub

a forty dollar galvanized bathtub! carrying buckets of water up the hill to heat on the old cook stove... i watched you bathing in the kitchen, in the old house down on Henry River. fried Spam and pork 'n beans, moonlit trips to the outhouse.... stray dogs on the porch. endless truckloads of wood scraps; we made love through winter nights, so cold in the room you could see your breath! you licked the frost from my moustache, and the world went on without us.... a forty dollar bathtub, buckets of water, nothing needed, nothing more!