Notes

“Have you ate this morning?”

the lab technician asks when I go in for blood tests.

Is this  a Freudian slip

or does she ask every patient this

all day every day year in and year out?

English teachers, educators everywhere;

your work is not finished.

One good thing about wearing my swimming suit

to the gym is that I don’t forget it.

Sometimes that happens –

I’m at the gym and my swimming suit

is still hanging at home.

Knowing me, I always carry a spare.

I was telling Eddy that before he went on his outing,

he either needed to change his shirt or his pants

so he would match.

“I’m not the matching type;

So you don’t have to gripe,”

he poeticizes.

The world is so much brighter and clearer

looking out of clean windows;

even the sunsets.

Especially after a massive dust and salt storm.