Retirement

The old man looks at his cold meal.
A dead fish looks up at him. A pile of beans.
The rancid smell drifts into his nostrils.
He picks up his fork and begins to push the food around his plate.
Plain white china adorned with gauche pink bows and flowers.
He looks across the table. His wife sits at the other end, solving a word puzzle.
She is short and fat.
You would never believe she was once a model.
She is eating the cold shit. She is ripping apart the fish. "How do you spell 'Eskimo'?" She asks. "E-S-K-E-M-O" He replies. She smiles and scribbles in her book.
He looks around the room. A cat calendar and cross hang on the wall.
The Holy Bible is placed on the coffee table.
Quietly, The Wheel of Fortune plays in the Living room.
"Tony- your fish" She says.
The old man wishes that he married someone else.
He stabs the fish and rips it apart. He opens his mouth and begins to eat. It tastes disgusting. He puts his fork down.
"I can't eat this. I need to cut it up."
She doesn't even look up from her puzzle. "What were the names of the Brat Pack again?" He gets up, and looks around at the home he hates. The home he worked an entire life to create. He looks at all the cat plates and lace doilies. His blood begins to boil. He walks into the kitchen- adorned with bright oven mitts. The kitchen reeks of mothballs and coffee. Another television plays the Wheel of Fortune. He turns it off.
The knives are in the cabinet. He opens the flimsy wooden door. He takes the biggest one.
He slowly walks back into the other room. He sees his fat wife, stuffing her face. Stuffing her face with the money he worked for his entire life to earn. She is fat off his money, his sweat, his blood.
He walks behind his fat wife as she eats. He looks down at her in disgust- Did he ever really love her?
Without a second thought he lifts the knife.
The wife screams out in pain. The old man does not care. He continues to stab her violently; her blood splatters over the table, all over him.
He doesn't care- he has never felt so happy or so free.
This is the happiest day of his life.