By Misti
Date: 2002 Sep 16
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Full of Myself

in the morning I study my
husband's sleeping face
and then I write
or read
sometimes I paint
I eat Grasshoppers
and swallow the pill
that gets me through

and I love driving toward
the mountains
especially when they are embellished
with enormous conspiring clouds
to feel so small and inconsequential
is a great thing
especially when you carry around
a crowded head

but I am poor
and that is offensive
to many
it is offensive to me when I want
to see a new movie
and eat expensive butter drenched popcorn
or go to the Clinique counter
and shell out a casual hundred bucks

and I am poor in other ways
I lack People Skills
and Personality Plus
I am no Julia Roberts
I don't light up a room

yet days go by when I don't worry
about any of this
being full of myself
feeling loved by a few
my simple life
is sufficient
hearing the windchimes
and my husband's snore.