2005/oatmeal.wpd

Cold oatmeal for breakfast,
you eat first
I have to wait an hour
for my thyroid hormone
to do whatever it does,
like little men rowing boats
through my veins.
By then the oatmeal
has to be re-heated,
sometimes I don’t bother,
always a mistake
to take so little
care of yourself.
Something I have
to continually
re-learn.

10/13/05