Betrayal by Andrea Hollander Budy : American Life in Poetry #261 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004

written by

Ted Kooser

All over this country, marriage counselors and therapists are right now speaking to couples about unspoken things. In this poem, Andrea Hollander Budy, an Arkansas poet, shows us one of those couples, suffering from things done and undone.

Betrayal

They decide finally not to speak