What I Did This Sunday on the Oregon Coast Before 1:30 P.M.

Drank cheap coffee

Built fort

Threw cheese and fruitcake

Broke bread with birds

Wrote poem about breaking bread with birds

Listened to Aimee Mann

Wrote about Aimee Mann

Wrote about rapprochement

Read two chapters of Greek mythology

Watched last half hour of 1963 production of Jason and the Argonauts

Read two Christmas-themed Maigret detective stories by George Simenon

Planted garden

Made omelet

Talked to a friend

Composed a letter in my head

Weeded flowerbeds

Listened to Monk and Byrd albums

Talked to rat in basement

Talked to myself

Found a bumblebee’s lair

Sat on back deck daydreaming

Drank mint iced tea

Thought about the best strangest sentence overheard in the last three months, said by a woman in the probation office lobby: “The roast beef looked like mermaid…and it wasn’t the lighting.”