I met a married couple
in ** Chi Minh City.
He was 63, and claimed
he talked to God.

She was 28, heavily pregnant
and told me that God only
smiled at the unsurprised.
I was curious about them.

As we walked by
Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica,
she talked about Vietnamese men,
how they would hit her.
Make her ‘do things’.

She said this man was kind.
“He gets angry, but he does not hit me”.

The three of us spent most
of the day together.
Spinning words of wonder,
as we visited the Independence Palace
and the War Museum.

The man was interesting,
caught halfway between old age
and a new life.

We laughed about age
“**** Jagger had a baby in 2016,
and he is 75” he said.

So I told him “Keeping pace is all the rage these days”
This made him laugh.