Wait until noon.
Drink two cups of coffee
with real milk and real sugar.
Oat milk and truvia are OK too.
Call your friend
to see how she is.
Eat one ruggalech
and one clementine orange.
You can eat again
after your poem,
Write a letter by hand
to someone you haven’t
talked to in years.
In your letter
tell her everything.
Clean out the silverware drawer.
Read Naomi Klein.
Write down any words
you especially like
such as elevator.
Pretty soon now,
you’ll have a good poem.
I love this series.
i just ate 3 clementines and 2 fig newtons (really). the poetry is ready to burst right out of me... i think i'll take a walk first, before tapping into to the muse.