The Movie Queue

he said

she always picked bad movies,
ones with tortured relationships,

bad parenting, marriages falling apart

or untimely deaths of loved ones.

she said he always
picked bad movies, shoot ‘em ups
with blood and guts everywhere,

impossibly complicated spy films,

or endless scenes inside submarines

where you had to read the subtitles

all the time.

they fought over the Netflix queue
and ended up with the worst
of both genres so they could both

be miserable.