Scrunched day

             
                                    
                                          
due to monthly grocery shopping, but though I'm
still behind/ I've caught up some.  Bought two  
envelopes and mailed my old chapbook out.  Also
got a film developed and over at Library Station
checked out a copy of the Shorter Fifth Edition   
of The Norton Anthology of Poetry edited by  
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon          
Stallworthy.                                       
                                                   
The air was brisk today but mostly clear and         
not cold.  Had forgotten how long the film I   
had developed had been in my camera, and so I   
was like saying to the clerk: "What are these,   
they don't look like any pictures I took."
Some are of me, which led me to say: "I look    
dead.  Maybe I am.  My body just hasn't figured
it out yet."  That led me into an unnecessary   
public meditation on life and death.  If Jim
Kunstler is right, there will be a massive die
off of ill elderly soon if our leaders don't see
the policies they are pursuing are the wrong       
ones.                                           
                                                   
Have quit eating processed meat, and my body   
is saying thank you.  Have gone to using one
brand of nutrition drink, though I still have
four bottles of a second brand to use up.  I
didn't buy a blender though.  Am not sure    
what vegetables and fruits to get, and if it
would be better to get them frozen.  I have  
another month during which to decide.             
                                                
Had some strange dreams last night, and as
I awoke from the one that came after AM 3/ 
a song appeared:
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Attached to a Dream                    
                                               
Yes we can.                                
Yes I know we can.                          
Yes I know we can                            
because, well,                     
yes I know we can.                        
                                          
Yes we can.                    
Yes I know we can.              
Yes, I know we can                      
because we can.                                  
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Not sure if this song is straight or satirical.    
                                                     
                                                 
                                                 
                                               
                                                
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