What Now?

Is there always something?

It doesn’t feel that way now

that I’m home and relaxed 

and know I have today and tomorrow 

to be so., 

so carpe diem at least for today.

What are you up to? Are you having fun?

Over your depression? Got a new look on life?

You’re just part of the food chain, like me, 

like everyone.

I’m a bottom dweller anymore…give us credit…

we’ve survived longer than most.

Make use of your environment, try to blend in,

is a strategy that seems to have worked for me.

Not in the corporate mannequin way,

no…just a known, harmless person, not a threat.

that’s good enough for me.

Some dark music, a few cigarettes, a pipe…

do I know what’s good for me?

I’m 77, but I can’t answer that question.

What I see is what I got, as is the same for you.

The aliens would agree.