Algorithemized contact to the current weather

 Currently it is 24 degrees Fahrenheit in Oberlin, Ohio.

Isn’t that a long way from the decent Climate of good old summertime. 

Imagine a group of your friends and relatives talking and laughing gathered around picnic tables. Music. That’s the season.

Now from the front window not a car, not a walker nor a dog in sight.

A light frost covers the lawn.

Nary a breath of  breeze to move a branch.

Okay, put your day together, do it well, using whatever you have to work with.

It’s a few hours later, I saw a bush branch wiggle and a car went by. 

And the mailman.  He didn’t stop here, one less thing to think about.

Dry, cold and blasted

Home on Friday, cold out, so i'm keeping inside.

Patched from kidney stones is how i am.

Got 3500 blasts of kilo voltage that scratched me up.

Thank goodness they know their work,

And lucky I’ve insurance.

Quality people working at the hospital. 

Sure is comforting to see folks that

go out of their way to pay attention and do a good job.

feeling poorly i am,

the laser blasting got me good.

yet i suppose i'd feel worse

if the doctor's aim was lousy.

Other legs

 Easy going today, not much happening.

Saving myself for walking in Rome.

Good sunshine, and there’s coffee on the next corner.

A couple of minutes to get there.

Here is where I am actually.

Not overly crowded. The morning rush is over.

I give a hand signal and wink for a straight shot. 

Keep it polite and tasty. They call it a bullet.

Then onto the bus, circle the park.

One book to read. A pad to take notes.

Taking my time, making a rhyme.

Wondering how far to go.

Walking on air

 Walking, Nowhere. 

Meri is taking me to the hospital so I can get kidney stones blasted. Is this poetry or what.

The doctor talked like six minutes and I’ll be on the way to Bob’s Big Boy breakfast shop, a place I never cared for.

He didn’t know.

I didn’t say

Scramble me some eggs

Top notch

 is the type of day we have.

planned in my head. I’m doing

nothing to set it underway.

So what do you say? Wanna stay?

Enough said. Toast or bread?

Have to figure when to take a pill or skip it

Or wait for another day to begin.

Scheduling big time now. 

have to line stuff up,

like pills and such. Nothing much.

the sky is fine.

plants will be next to show themselves.

Tooth and kidney stones

 uncomfortable sitting, waiting.

 i surely would rather read and write.

no snow at all. we are in premature spring.

Went to mercy hospital on highway 58 in Amherst.

What a drag. Sit and wait.  A tv on in every waiting room.

Everyone has a device with which to read. 

No one watches TV.

Many hospital workers and out-patients were around. 

The week’s hours fill for us.

Seems we always have appointments.

Thinking Lincoln

 a century past 

a gentle country fellow from 

Kentucky who stood tall, made a good impression, also

became the sixteenth President of the United States.

Here we are in our modern era and everyone

knows his name. He would have

been interesting to spend a Sunday with on

a picnic in the shade some sunny afternoon and

listen to what he has to say.

in both our time and in his.

 if you imagine a situation imagine well.