Morning routine

THE DO-NOTHING

Every morning I sit

and do nothing but

sip coffee and talk to the morning bids,

they don't ask many questions

but simply chatter away with chirp and song,

they don’t judge my personality

or why I sit idling my mornings away,

do they know all of us will have someone at the door

one day, closing out our contract?

so we sit to forget the inevitable.

But my birds are happy to perch

on fire-escapes or fly up to rooftops,

I also watch them do nothing

we are experts at that

one action

or inaction,

I do sometimes wonder

if they are secretly taking notes

carefully documenting each day

with charts, stats, little photos, logs, and maps

to bring down South

reporting back on all do-nothings.