Plan Ahead

You realize how hard that is to do?

At first, it's "heads up!" learn to walk,

eat solid food, tie your shoe.

Later, when the bearing's straight,

begin to look around, a random place,

random people, a serendipitous body

of knowledge accrues, a random 

amalgam that has no blue print to go on.

No one can plan a head...heads just

happen like the rainbows they dissolve

into. I didn't plan ahead to have enough

cigarettes, so this poem started on the 

way to the store; these aren't the same

words I had in mind on the way down.

Even Pollock (i bet) didn't know, at first, 

why he drizzled paint on canvass...

probably just thought he was drunk, and 

was. Only later the "ah ha!" Eureka! No 

one has the timetable for a brainstorm. 

They're planning for an earthquake in 

California right now, but, they'll never be 

ready for it, like love that happens when 

you least expect it. The only thing one

can plan for is anything to happen.