Spring colors glare
Their strong perfume everywhere
Then I sneeze

When from your mouth
the non-truth flies
and you fill your head
with your own lies
you can bluster
you can mumble
but sooner
your wall
starts to crumble

There is nothing else I see
more tolerant than you of me
we've had our ups
we've had our downs
and I
the silliest of clowns
could spend a lifetime
trying to
think of something else to do
but fact is fact
and this is sweet
and means more than a Donald tweet
the fact is this
you know it's true
there's no one best for me
than you

I was supposed to have auditions tonight
for a musical I am directing
but it snowed
the show is at the theater where I met my wife
that was in 1991
we were in a play together
I was 31 she was not
We both played witnesses
for the prosecution
It snowed then too but not at auditions

She was the President of the theater at the time
and they needed another body onstage
she doesn't like "onstage"
She prefers to be dressed in black
in the dark
with a notebook
flashlight
and headset
She's doing that for this show too

I've been onstage
I've sprung from a jack-in-the-box
been an aide to the Emperor of Japan
I've yelled at Stella
and hit a priest over the head
with a poker
I've been in a hospital in Burma
During World War Two
but now I prefer to direct
from behind a table
I have a big notebook too
I used to have pads, pencils and snacks
all over the table
but now
it's mainly computers, iPhones and tablets
and snacks

The first time I was onstage
and when I first fell in love with theater
was when I was in fifth grade
my teacher was into theater
and I didn't know it then
but the theater she was "really into"
was the one where I met my wife
the one where I was supposed to have auditions tonight
for a play I'm directing
but it snowed.

Me
alone
thinking big
too big to sleep
yet in sleep I free my mind to wander

Facts
are
Concrete
and solid
our planet is round
is one terrific example
a belief in an orange-faced comb-over won't change them

One snowflake is quite fragile
and it's said that no two snowflakes are alike
yet when they join together in the millions
they can form an avalanche that changes everything
just like people can