A meditation on what makes a couple

Oyster
sits and spits.
Mollusk-as-grass, 
rooted, muted,
colored in
good enough,
in sedentary.

Snail
glides by:
mollusk-movement.
Purposefulness
imbues her,
stubbornness, her
going-ness.

Can these opposites
attract? Or,...

What if Crab
tiptoes past
them both?
What then?
Who pines for
legs? Who clings
stubbornly to
Life As It Is?

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