Saturday, September 18, 2021

What friends are supposed to be type poetry

 The trees that glisten with sunlite gleams seemed to wave to me as I drove by:


"Come sit under our warm cool branches when you have the time."


And I do whenever I can. Why just the other day a bench under a tree was better than a pavilion Parthenon.  


The ceiling didn't have the inviting life like a green friend that a nearby tree had to offer. 


I'm not Whitman and don't glorify trees. A tree isn't a poem. A tree stays tree. 


A cat came out to play from the house next to me. 


"Thank you for letting me outside the other day with a clear indifferent love, but I'd like to also sometimes be with other cats."


And I understood though I'm not a cat. A nearby watering hole with a few nice people does sound a bit better than the superficial devotional meditation that gurus like to prescribe like a monolithic cowboy pull string nothing. A metaphor is just a metaphor sometimes. Not an invitation. I don't want any pull string cowboys in my life at all. But the word itself does have a nice style ring to it so I wrote it. 


People like to hang out. People like to laugh.


That's the only reason a good friend should be.

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