I would love to go to Walmart,
and Target,
and stores with the disease of Black Friday.
Take the iPods from the mothers, and say, oh did you want this?
then move it over two feet and leave.

If only I could have stayed overnight at Wally World,
like they said we could.
Fun in the sun.

somehow,
today people are together.
laughing, crying,
weeping, sighing.

and i ask why?
why just today?
thanks-giving day
should be every day.

so, as you gather round the turkey,
or tofurkey,
or ham, or spare ribs and crab,
remember that there should be nothing special about today.

because everyday should be a day of thanks.

melancholy ways of whispering
number one melancholy way is with your head cast down
ashamed, or humble?
number two is with tears in your eyes.
remember.

do i just like the words, patterned on my heart? they are lovely and grateful words.
not meaningless.
but there.

there must be twenty
twenty!
clouds I can see,
but this little cloud seems important to me.
it tries to raise higher than all of it's peers,
but it's opponenets sit and jeer.

there must be fifty
fifty!
trees causing trouble
so why does this tree seem like my double?
it rises above the rest of the trees,
to differientiate itself from the forest, it seems.