Creature of Habit

1.
One boiled egg
One grapefruit
One piece of toast.

A glass of water,
a cup of coffee with honey and cream,
a cup of lemon ginger tea.

Vitamins and other health items

2.
Check e-mails,
check my bank account,
check my library account,
read news and or other blogs

3.
Prepare my book and lunch bags:
carrots, celery, apples, sandwich,
maybe other goodies.
to go cup of coffee
drive to work

4.
I love listening to books on CD
while driving three days a week to Eugene.
I love driving to Eugene
three days a week
so I can listen to books on CD.

5.
Red tail hawks
sit on fences and in trees
along I-5.
Sometimes I get to see them catch
and not release.

6. House of Death
I live in a
house of death.
Here you must expand your definition
of what a house of death is.
This is not a house where gruesome murders have taken place.
No, you must expand you mind
around an ever expanding definition.
Don't limit yourself to imagining a
house of death
as a horrible thing.

My wife is a hospice nurse,
she helps people die.
Her son picks up
dead people.
This is a house of death
but not a horrible disgusting tragic event
but a beautiful caring loving house.

Were I to die,
I would want my wife
to help me journey down that path
kiss my lips in one final act of Love.
Her son would carry me to the fire
and they would return me to the earth
preferably around Lower Falls.

7.
But,
I am a creature of habit
and old habits die hard
and this old habit will not be going
any time soon
at least that is what I have been told
and I will enjoy the habits
of Love I feel and find in this house
vibrant and out in the open
or hidden in a surprise
in a dusty forgotten corner.

8.
Shower,
eat dinner,
brush my teeth.
"Well,
I'm off to bed.
See you when you come to bed, Beautiful."
Kiss wife goodnight,
slip under the covers,
dream...