Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Biden takes oath as president

 7:30 in the morning, i flipped on the TV.

Wolf Blitzer looks tired. the man so admired.

i took a shower the first hour i'm awake.

the anauguration is today.

 everyone will line up soon black car after another.

Joe is getting ready, maybe he's having breakfast.

i forgot about breakfast, there i remembered and i'm hungry.

so i made bacon and scrambled eggs.

then from a good seat in my tv chair,

well, we switched, but often do that, i'm in her chair.

both chairs are identical, more or less... no, exactly, and forty years old - from Nancy Otten..

our day is marking the event. no snow fall, a cold spring-like day.

good sun. i'll believe he goes easy when he is gone.

it's eight o'clock...the door is open...he hasn't gone yet.

this is our time also. a point to mark time. i'd rather have a musical event

like a singer and piano player. Diane Krall, heard her recently, what a fine artist.

put her on a fine piano and you have something.

Meri put it together, there's no crowd at the airport...he wants to talk to a crowd.

8:15 he and wife, Melania are in the helicopter.

8:18 liftoff for a fifteen minutes flight to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base. Joint base Andrews

what, i have to give a travel report for this poem?

my words are sleepy also i suppose.

not greased but moving ahead. i should be at a table looking

toward the rising sun. having an easy winter.

well i'll have breakfast then see how the world looks. 

Biden my time

mask up,

way to go;

tie one on

this time for Joe.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

we eat differently

i'd say we were fifteen

eating lunch in the school cafeteria 

for the first time. at the same table

he watched me eat, i watched him.

mashed potatoes, vegetables, salad, and meat.

 

he was amazed because i ate things together.

one bite here, one bite there; and i'd never seen someone like him.

he ate all the potatoes, then all the vegetable, 

then all the salad, then all the meat.


we do as we are taught.