(baby)

A crying baby,
I have no time
for the disturbance,
do no like the distraction,
the interruption
to my thoughts.
I don’t mind
that kids exist.
It’s just that
I’ve already heard
them and don’t need
to again.
A growing list.
that keeps getting
longer –
things I don’t need
to do again.
And then there is
the other one –
things I haven’t
done – yet,
that thinks of house
trading with someone
in Italy,
and places I have not
been.

3/22/00