On days I have to
Be Somewhere
      -and-

Be Someone

I drink coffee
while I get dressed.
I brush my hair and
Put on black clothes and

I think about
the nature of life
and that interview
I read once.

Ann Curry
Puts a little bit of cream
And a single sugar cube
In her morning coffee.

She likes it that way.
She looks forward to 
Just a little bit
of sweetness.

I think about Johnny and
his love for June and
how he joked and played and
Wrote and

Fought his own demons and
Instead of putting on makeup,
Or wiping down the counter,
I write haikus.

                *

To be Ann Curry
Satisfied with the sweetness
Of a sugar cube.

                *

Johnny Cash and I
We just want to laugh and cry
With our breaking hearts.