Right now I am parting the fan-like branches of several large plants at one side of the lobby

I woke up totally refreshed and I'm pretending to be the kid-in-a-coconut-shell-tiger-costume

Running, clanking, sneaking

Across the room I see a guy down from down the hall

He looks like Clark Kent, only with sunken cheeks from the lack of many teeth

He is looking up from his morning paper and coffee

He is wearing an ice-frosted glass derby

He says it alleviates his toothache pain

As I move toward the back of the Hotel I pass through a small hallway to the right of the office window

As I open a back door the sun, vibrant plant life and ocean mist   roll into me like a warm grizzly cub

There is not much of a crowd here today

I am enjoying the silence

Looking out across the well manicured lawn

Then orange sun into the orange behind my eyelids' morning, on and on...