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Never for Naught
A day in particular felt like skiing uphill
Stress and tensions high in the corporate jungle
I ran out of steam at exactly 8:03 A.M.
Yet my phone incessantly rang missing the most important calls
Because I had to kick the crap out of a copier
Pulling my hair gritting teeth eyes filling unshed frustration
Tried to center my chakra, think of a raft on the calm waters
Yet the person in the raft was giving her fax number to a client
And attempting ass kissing to her boss floating nearby
On the busy city street a fancy alarm begins to make a car honk
The extra noise should give me cause for my Prozac
Instead I remember the rainy day we were driving back from the lake
And your car horn had a loose wire--started going off on its own
Cursing about the damn day, you pulled over popped your hood
"This will take forever to fix in the %@#*! rain!"
I can't help it. I laugh out loud the car horn is still beeping
I make out people driving by staring at us and then you shake
with chuckles of humor and weariness mixed into one emotion.
We both stand in the rain looking at the innards of a vehicle
Until you disconnect the faulty noisemaker and we still haven't
stopped our chuckling--the hilarity of it all!
You held me then for appreciation of what we had and the unspoken
philosophy it could all end.
Two years later I thought I was done with you but....
today I smiled at his memory.
We were not nor will ever be for naught.
