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Commitment

My husband habitually separates his shirts and socks
into separate zipper bags when traveling,
and into the hotel's dresser drawers they go
along with his laptop bag and camera
so unlike my explosion of panties and shoes
onto the unused bed, into the closet,
clothes piled Pollack-esque in both corners
of our one room habitude for two weeks.
If housekeeping takes my earrings
it will be a month or more before I can confirm
I didn't just stick them somewhere else,
but aside from clearing my make-up mirror
off the desktop, or my leaving his nail clippers
out after borrowing
we let each other be our neurotic selves
so different from each other, but exactly alike
in commitment to habit.