Like a rubber balloon

How do you ask
your neighbour politely
if he's sleeping with your wife?

With a smile or an ironed face?
do you tuck it neatly between two jokes?
or prick it open like a rubber balloon?

You stand there at his door
clenched knuckles hanging (mid-air)
stalling from knocking while
you chew around your mouth
the words you picked
since a week.

But you knock eventually
(and of course) he's home
so he opens.

You greet him with weird words
(if they do count as words)
borrow copper wire,
(or glue, whatever) and leave,
as something shrivels
down