june 4 begins
with a man at a stop sign
car running
he's eating a sandwich
I guess that overcame him
and then 12 hours
later a very
deathly
serious woman
tries to explain
she is not goofy
after I called her that
and then
I called her goofy
again--another
woman at the table
said I'm zen
I said that's an insult
oh the light the names
I said no
you can call me
tired
but not buddhist
or maybe
I'm just a little absurd
sometimes
pass the salt
she said
do you mean eccentric
I said
no
absurd and eccentric
are quite different
but now I know
what kind of eyes
you have
(I didn't really
I just called her)
goofy again
I took a quick shot
at telling the story
about the man
with the sandwich
but I quickly
retracted
leaving a little gap
in the talking