4/25/08

My Digs For A Few Days

For the next few days I am attending a leadership retreat for the writing project group I involved with. This is my home away from home for the next few days. I set up my own little desk.When I am away from home I like to create my own little nest. I am rooming with my good friend, we have had a fine retreat so far, I get to squeeze in some shopping, and I got a drink from Starbucks today, so life is good.

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #25


How Are You Doing?

As much as you deserve it,
I wouldn’t wish this
Sunday night on you-
not the Osco at closing,
not its two tired women
and shaky security guard,
not its bin of flip-flops
and Tasmanian Devil
baseball caps,
not its freshly mopped floors
and fluorescent lights,
not its endless James Taylor
song on the intercom,
and not its last pint of
chocolate mint ice cream,
which I carried
down Milwaukee Ave.
past a man in an unbuttoned
baseball shirt, who stepped
out of a shadow to whisper,
How are you doing?
-Rick Snyder
inlandempiregirl's comment: an endless James Taylor song on the intercom is a good thing!