Marriage vows should come with a timer
That goes off fifteen years later
When you’re both bored and tired
When the spring she used to put in your step
has turned into a ball and chain
When you have stifled your grudges enough to get through another week without a fight …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Tanya Tomasch is a Canadian writer, musician, and translator who grew up in Austria and Czechia and now lives in Vancouver (Instagram: margarita.and.the.masters).