their marriage ended

not in an argument, or with an agreement, but
when he came home to an nearly empty apartment

that now contained only
his clothes
a computer desk
and a computer

a little checking on that computer showed
she had spent over three-hundred and
fifty thousand dollars on
gambling websites

now termed “fantasy sports”

and he wondered how she, an attorney, far
more educated and ‘sophisticated’ than he was,
had ever gotten
to this point

and why

he had never noticed