I love singing at the top of my lungs in my car I’m pretty sure the guy in the next lane thinks I’m a superstar. Wait ‘till he sees me play my guitar. I must have coffee in the morning Before that...You’ve been given a fair warning. Books on the floor Books by the door Books on my shelf in alphabetical order No, I don’t have a disorder. Don’t look so surprised... I just like things organized… or at least just my hundreds of tomes. Gatsby’s journey before Frome’s Poetry : Symmetry Words in reason and rhyme in beat and time. Favorite color: purple many a journal It doesn’t take a Sherlock to know that my favorite flower is the lilac. Getting that perfect picture on file. Jeans, sweater, scarf- that’s my style. Finding the perfect word after thinking for a while. a child’s gap-toothed smile. I love to drive with all of my windows open and sunroof down. Even if my ‘do looks like the hair of Einstein or the wig of a clown Mom’s sure that I’ll get scalp cancer from the uv exposure. “But I have to”, I answer. I can’t stay cooped up in an enclosure ever afraid to venture out. I want to feel the wind, the sun, on my face to the heavens I want to shout I’m free, not just stuck in one place I want to see the endless green and blue space I want to see the ocean of grass the night lights I’ll pass. I’ll swim at the beach and for the stars I’ll reach. Because, more than anything I want to be free Can’t you see?