Another Good Poem from The Writer's Almanac

69

by Philip Schultz

The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems

This morning I'm tired of the same newspapers and arguments.
I'm tired of sticking the same legs into the same pants,
the same hands poking out of the same sleeves, going west
and then east, heating up the same tea, watching the same sun
rise over the same horizon, the same trees shedding the same leaves.
Tired of climbing the same stairs to look out the same window
at the same street, tired of shaking the same hands, opening and
closing the same doors, dreaming the same dreams, saying hello
good morning happy birthday I'm so sorry please forgive me.

"69" by Philip Schultz, from The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems. © Houghton Mifflin, 2010.