Desert Bird Watching

Are there things I’m not doing that I should be doing

(change too fast-occurring to collect data)?
What things SHOULD I be doing that I’m NOT doing?

First, I must tell the yes-ing from the no-ing—
I always have an inflated
notion of the things I should be doing.

So, is there debt accruing
when I don’t do something that I should be doing (like pay my alma mater)?
I should be doing something that I’m not doing,

but what it IS exactly I’m begging
to know. I go out and hoe my taters,
and there may be OTHER things I should be doing,

like herding cattle and Cat Ballou-ing
(flashing spurs and fighting gators),
just to mention a FEW things I might be doing.

Those rare Mojave quail, I hear them cooing,
because I finally got out to check the radiator!
I’m finally doing the thing I SHOULD be doing.
Boo to NOT-doing!