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found the website for Writer’s Almanac. this has me in a good mood because every morning at 6:30 AM I would wake up listening to it and it would start me off on a good foot.

“Today is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. He was born in Assisi, in central Italy, in 1182. He started out as a wealthy man-about-town, until he fell into a serious illness in his 19th year. He was praying in the dilapidated Church of St. Damiano one day in 1206, and he heard the voice of Christ saying, “Go, Francis, and repair my house which, as you see, is well-nigh in ruins.” He went and took some of his father’s money for the project. He went on to found the Franciscan Order, which was dedicated to poverty, penance, and the relief of the sick.”

drinking tea
that fogs up
my glasses
like the short poems
take anything
they will hit you
with anything
may the tea
put me to sleep
for just a couple
hours more
and calm my
swollen eye

you will experience much
in a long life if you’re lucky
I live for the writing
and not much else
it is where I find real people
and it demands little of me