Life Immense

From the North West
Hip and highwayed and sure
Where ice on the roads
Is the crisis de jour

To the Middle East
Older than old
Reborn and reborn
Evergreen and growing

-T. Weeks
(A response to a delayed flight)

Sitting in the bathtub
Been a long time
Not sure what to do
No rubber duckies
Do I just sit here
Showers are faster
And warmer I think
Humming is echoey
I remember that now
Hesitant drip escapes the faucet
Plunks and echoes too
If I pull the plug
Will I get sucked down the drain
It’s not a silly thought
Happened to a friend of mine

-T. Weeks
(A response to a bath)

A free Créme Brûlée
Is all it was
Free dessert is all
Nothing funny about that
Don’t laugh
The waiter was just nice
Who gets a free
Anything
Let alone a Créme Brûlée

-T. Weeks
(A response to dinner)

One tasted candy
One wandered, fingers spread wide
Both want more and more

-T. Weeks
(A response to learning)

Little guy
Couple seats away
Tells stories
Panhandling for respect
Gets laughs instead
Doomed
Always the easy target

-T. Weeks
(A response to the guy at the bar)

Some mornings it’s politics
Other mornings it’s religion
Or poverty or race or Trump
Today it was dog poop

-T. Weeks
(A response to coffee conversations)

First to tell
First to forget
First to forgive
First to blame
First to ask
Last to thank

-T. Weeks
(Thinking about my number one)

Spaceman
Floating
Solo mission
To the edge
Keeps a diary
For whom?

-T. Weeks
(A response to Buster Scruggs)

Two thousand eighteen
Smashed everything to pieces
Here we come nineteen

-T. Weeks
(A response to a crazy year)

Dog walking
Rain falling
Tom Petty playing, the Wildflowers album
Hearing some songs for the first time
Rain soaking through the jacket
Rain dripping from hair to cheek
Fingers freezing
Dog walking
Flying fast from street to street
Absent smiling at other walkers
Dog pooping where they can see
My shit is hiding
Choosing left or home
Going left
Morning baptizing us both

-T. Weeks
(A response to a morning walk with the dog)