One way to want
to be somewhere
is to not be there –
to be sitting at
a distance –
All good marriages
encounter difficulty
which stew into
common indifferences
and then sour
as spite and low esteem –
that being the natural order
of such things –
but we have halted nature –
we can squeeze and rub
our chemical emollients
on each raised rash –
on rage-blemished skin –
and invent new ways
to hold ring-bound hands
and still travel together
MIKE BELL | 10,000 Poems 