What a Day . . !  

I went to the deli to have a corned beef sandwich and ‘’they” said

“you can’t have one in the afternoon.” A simple and sweet request 

turned to salt! I then took the kids to the fair for a couple of burgers.

 First I got ignored, then “they” kept my burger for themself. 

Not only that, I forgot my keys to some house that’s not even mine

 and berated myself for that! Finally, I returned from this day and 

the house was on fire!  I ran like hell, back and forth to warn others

 from the intense heat, and somehow ran into the snow. What the hey?

I expected a world that might be consistent but no: sweet and salty,

 fair and unfair, fire and ice, never knowing what the universe is sowing.

Well, at least when I sat down, giving up on my travails, a special woman

 who at times, seems to be out there, lands a perfect warm and loving

kiss on my cheek and buries her head against my shoulder. They all 

 tell me that she lives inside of me, and at times I believe it. 

Yet, the world is “nasty brutish and short’ as they say, but at least, 

 when in my life I face the irreconcilable, I can sometimes sit with a few

friends outside the café on a lovely day and know that the perfect kiss that 

 the angels have in store for me, just might be coming. So yes: 

WHAT A DAY! 

b silverman