Café Philos: an internet café

The wind rose.
The sky darkened.
The leaves fell,
then the rain.

The weather today
struck like a poem.

Rising winds.
Falling lives.

It rains.
It rains.

It rains.

I don’t even like rabbits.

But there was a rabbit

showed up in my yard late Winter.
He wasn’t shy.
He wouldn’t run

until the last moment..

It got to where
around the time of the thaw,
I found myself watching for him;
Still not liking rabbits.

.

One morning mid-Spring
after first light but before sunrise
I opened my blinds…

CAT!
A large tom prowling North to South.
I took sides: hoped for the rabbit.

That day, no rabbit.

Next day, no rabbit.

Third day,
no rabbit.

.

Fourth day, I told myself,
“Don’t be a fool,
it’s the way of things.”

.

Three more days passed then
two rabbits!

I snorted, “Off courting, I see.
Next time, tell me!

“Dumb rabbit!”

.

I still don’t like rabbits.
But I went to the store last night;

bought carrots
for two rabbits.

 

My mother, who passed away three years ago a few months beyond her 99th birthday, often told me how important being able to entertain oneself can be to one’s happiness.

She was very kind to me. At birth, she not only gave me life, but something to laugh at. Me. Consequently, I have seldom gone wanting for self-entertainment.

My second ex-wife thought I was so good in bed that I must be god. Sometimes in bed, she would even call me “God! God!”

But then at other times, she would call me, “Jim! Oh, Jim!” And even now and then, “Steve!”

I assume she was a Trinitarian.

I was trying to shelter in place last night when six burly police officers barged in and evicted me!

Incredible!

I am so angry with whoever it was that reported to the police I was sheltering in the dressing room of the TNT Strip Club. They even stole my popcorn!