As I replied without thinking, “Over my dead broad”°.  A moment of silence and shock enterprised.
The counting had stopped, but not my eyes. “Alright”, said the fellow, “What have you say?” Condemned to destruction, my wife said okay.

And thats my reason for being like I am. The courtesy and pride was never quite the same. World’s apart, I see the stars. And my life disappears right before my eyes. The inevitable climax has already come to pass, but I say unto you good sir, “Don’t talk to save your life, but talk enough to speak your mind. In the end, all will fall into place. The world wonders, and I the world, to which it states.”
Control.
Devastatingly handsome control.
“Noone dies of fatal truth nowadays, there are too many antidotes”

°The world would know it that I was selfish in my time. So every word I spoke became worthless