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Oh, that's a reference to: Oh, that's a reference to Napoleon's Josephine who was said to feign headaches to avoid bedding with him. Unawareness is quite an issue in intimate relationships too! Reading the room seems to be a dying art/skill set. 

Thank you for the read and comment: I am not familiar with Josephine's headache, or are you just referencing the headache thing at bed in general? :) There's a joke about the husband bringing aspirin to the wife in bed... I was hoping to protray his obvious lack of awareness of blazing lights and unlocked door. This was a boyfriend, a guest in the house, so not really his responsibility to secure the fortress. But I have a feeling because he lived with roommates, blazing lights and unlocked doors were not his concern when he closed his bedroom door for the night. But the comment, why do you take so long to go to bed...lovely fellow, but seriously dude? Especially at our age. The new boyfriend looks for undone things, quite nice.  

Not to be indelicate to: Not to be indelicate to anyone but reminds me of Josephine's headache; but this is more progressive. Our bedtime rituals at home are quite complex as well... requiring a synchronous effort like synchronised swimming (Esther Williams comes to mind there) otherwise flicking too many switches and getting back up to double check if anything is amiss or forgotten.... Eventually someone snores first and sleeps through the night. Love the final line - it brings all the strands together beautifully.

The pulse of life captured in: The pulse of life captured in poetic lines, that is often the fish that tries to get away. Thanks kindly, pjj

Sad story!: I still love horses

I was delighted by the: I was delighted by the deftness of your creation: the way your cunning metaphor is carried on a stride of lilting meter, not unlike the pulse of our lives in the hands of a rambling “panhandler”.    A brilliant look at our relentless captor.