One Hundred Years of Solitude

with the leash around his
neck and his circus bicycle,
would not have thought that
he had made a pact of
unbridled love with his wife
and that they both gave in to
the reciprocal drive in the
least adequate of places and
wherever the spirit moved
them, as they had done since
they had began to keep
company, and with a passion
that the passage of time and
the more and more unusual