The Comfortable Thank You

Thanks for Listening

Thanks for talking

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for caring

Thanks for being my friend

I hope THAT will never, ever end

I look in my treasure box and YES there you sit

right on top

a tiny jewel

Weekly Meeting looks for Safe Refuge

I texted “help me”!

No response is needed she smirked

She painted her lip with a cock of hip

This is why people lose elections damn you!

However,

The cancellations swirl and fall

Like snowflakes

Delicate crystallized wonders of uniqueness

I am sure

If I could but look closer and deeper

Covering us and forming snow

A bright white blanket muffling all sound

Sterile and cold

All those fallen snowflake soldiers

too many now to cry for

Once while hunting high in the mountains

Peering through limbs while I caught my breath

I looked for you and you looked for me

It was snowing so hard I could hear them fail

touching tamarack kissing

hissing

Then,

A small white rabbit at my feet

Perfectly still and yet hysterical with fear

Its black eyes bright

Neither one of us wanted to move

Requiem for the not quite dead

What if we all wore black, all the time?

 you know, Johnny Cash close enuf’

dressed in leather chaps to strut our stuff

with fringe naturally

safely buy groceries at Safeway

What if all the cars in the world were as loud as Harleys

Like fast and furious, roar-n-rip, fart can equipped?

V8 Cadillacs making ears bleed decibel drips

Extra sound becoming the new diamond earrings

Too much baby makes her rich

We could all wear corporate logo-ese

People wearing black t shirts with big letters

“MAYTAG WASHERS RULE”

Or “I-PAD to live, live to I-PAD”

 understanding our paychecks pain from afar

 me and ten friends “ride” to Duvall

Only on sunny weekends of course

In our 1996 white Chevy Luminas

All cherried out Sonny Jim, listen

We choreograph a lineup

 a big tinny line of car coke

Proudly milling around outside

Our chests like round red roosters

Dapper dressed in lithe Lumina regalia

We are LUMINA riders, god damn your eyes

We have accomplished something today