About Joan
About Joan, everyone says
she's a nice person usually synonymous
with dull. She smiles too often. So does her husband Marvin.
He teaches medicine in Albany an hour away.
They taught their children
conflict revolution.
Also recycling. Last fall
Jean decided to take tai chi. Beulah
was Jean's tai chi master. Jean was hooked.
Three nights a week. Five by spring.
In July Jean told Marvin
she was in love with Beulah.
In September they got a Reno divorce.
Jean and Beulah bought a house
next door to Marvin and the kids.
Marvin remarried in less than a year.
All four of them smile a lot now.