He spent years wishing he had a wife. After he got one,
he spent years wishing he didn’t have her.

But he stayed with her because he feared being alone
by himself.

He believed in the saying better the devil you know
than the devil you don’t.

His wife felt the same way, and when he disappeared,
she wasn’t worried or distressed,

but felt at least he was useful as compost when
she watered her newly grown plants.

Bob Boyd