The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance. – Jodi Picoult
Two bulging discs in my back.
Mesh holding my stomach together.
The key – I believe
after some thirty years of study –
a strong balanced core.
Well, balance –
surely you agree –
is tough to get,
tougher to maintain.
Especially especially as you
strange phrase
grow older
and travel and walk and sit and write and fuck and drive.
And sleep.
Even sleep.
There is an equation
and an art
and a science
to maintaining balance.
Forgot
to remain flexible.