Alice and Martin
for Juliette Binoche

broken situation
to try to mend

women choose men
to make over

attempt to plant
who has been uprooted

women like to try
to patch things up
match up socks and such

missing pieces, parts
hearts cracked
down the middle
cracked in half to mend,
to make one again

they like what’s
difficult to tackle
like to be challenged
by what’s near impossible
to make sense of

must break eggs
to make omelets
to make cakes

think they can
make as much
of cracked lives,
of sighs


© Obediah micahel Smith, 2008
11:55 p.m. 10.02.08