10/3/10

the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries the mule never marries.

a burden shared is a burden halved
and the mule is meant to carry so the mule never marries.

but i could marry you.
the sickness of love sits
heavy
lazy in my knees.
fat and swollen with all the ways you could love me.
i was designed to lift it,
built to hold someone else's sadness.
there is no better place than here for it.
i am sturdy and simple,
stocky and strong.

and so your burden is given over to me
and i give myself to carrying
so i will never marry.