Daffy stuff

After I applied the jackhammer calm
to the back of my neck
I worked at getting back into my small foreign car

Then remembering the time I had to navigate
An Italian restaurant in a wheelchair
And all I broke at the last possible second
Was a coffee cup.

I've been watching the skies at night
I saw lightening and towering clouds
Cosmology in miniature for Earthlings like we are.

Nebulae clouds and horizontal lightning
Flashes of insight fire synaptic thunder of chemicals across the synapse of water vapor in the clouds as they make their fluid calculations at motion.

The darkness of the night was just beginning to set in,
But it did not rain here.
The rain passed south and west to east of me.
So this season I have been lucky like that.

Later that night I walked around the bayous
Under the sodium arc lamps orange glow
Then home where I fell asleep right away
After stretching my back for a minute on the floor or a firm mattress.

The bed of my friend was infested with roaches last week
His girlfriend got arrested for shoplifting roach spray
Her bail was $100 plus restitution  and a fine
I bought him 2 types of roach killer for under $7
How the roaches ended up in my friend's bed I did not ask.
He confided in me that she and he eat cookies in the bed.

You know what a bell pepper is don't you?  I asked the friar
Over lunch.  Oh yes he responded quite proudly
He loves to overstate the obvious.

He seemed a little sick today however and I think
He is working way  too hard at keeping all the adults
He is in charge of in some way in keeping with his personal values
He must try to see things from the eyes of the clients more.

I tell him this in the morning before lunch
And he agrees with me
He tells me he feels a little better than yesterday
We observe this may be the last cool morning for a while
As summer purrs along with snakes and mosquitoes
I look forward to fireworks on the Fourth of July.