travel white blood cells

a friend of mine is about to travel for a year or more
asking questions about how to book air tix that far in advance
susan is traveling now, feeling tropical hurricans, petting lizards
taking pictures and talking to people of other priorities

i'm writing about tiling a bathroom
and cleaning grout from underneath my fingernails
it's getting harder and harder to sit still in this place
stability, yes, a place to return to, have to have it
but in creating it i've had many travel temptations, a disease
each taking an aresenal of travel white blood cells to keep at bay
i've been back from traveling only 5 months
from one perspective it seems absurd, it's only been 5 months
time to go read those travel journals of complete loneliness

here was sept 2004 in India
here was London in 2003
here is today 2007