when we wake up
one or the other of us says oh man
and then the other says Oman
which is a sultanate on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula

and for a moment we are Omani
which is what the people of Oman are called
but we don’t know what that means because we’ve never been to Oman
or met anyone from there
or even met anyone who has met anyone from there

I wonder if maybe the Omani don’t travel very much
I mean why would they
we travel a lot
but not to the Arabian Peninsula

when people say oh man
they mean it as a substitute for oh god

almost everybody in Oman is Muslim
I wonder what they say when they wake up
also when they hit their thumb with a hammer
and if they use hammers like ours
or special Omani hammers

I’m not telling anybody how great our sex life is
because if I did I should probably tell them how stupid it is sometimes