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.”