Thursday, February 8, 2018

Sad Departure (Bouncing Around in My Own Small Boat)

God it’s boring
to keep track
of what I eat every day!
I write it in my diary—
Feb 8, 163.1
[on the scale, 
that’s an aside!].
Where does
my voice
dwell?
Bacon, eggs, and toast for breakfast, 800
[calories, that’s an aside too!]—
five pieces of bacon—
but saving fewer than three
would be either wasteful
or disappointing.
Hamburger during my Happy Gnome discussion group meeting
[we don’t meet at the Happy Gnome anymore,
a different kind of aside]—
my voice pecking at the ground like a chicken.
Hamburger had jelly on it, it was bad,
and I gave the fries to Althea, 400
[calories]. Piece of chocolate at about 7:00 [PM]
on my way to my music practice, 200
[calories]. Whole-grain cereal with almonds and yoghurt, 500
[calories]. So that’s only 1900
[calories]. Keep up the good work!
But tomorrow I’ll have to report on
Mike Finley
leaving
the Lawless Poetry group.
We’ll see how that
will have rocked this
small boat I’m bouncing in.